1. Richard Estes is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with such painters as John Baeder, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, and Duane Hanson.
11 Facts About Richard Estes
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At an early age, Estes moved to Chicago with his family, where he studied fine arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Richard Estes frequently studied the works of realist painters such as Edgar Degas, Edward Hopper, and Thomas Eakins, who are strongly represented in the Art Institute's collection.
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Richard Estes had lived in Spain since 1962 and, by 1966, was financially able to paint full-time.
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Richard Estes stayed true to the photographs he used: when his paintings include stickers, signs, and window displays, they are always depicted backwards because of the reflection.
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Richard Estes's work has been described in terms ranging from super-realism, sharp-focus realism, neo-realism, photo-realism, to radical realism.
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Richard Estes paintings were based on multiple photographs of the subject.
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Richard Estes had a one-man show in 1968 at the Allan Stone Gallery.
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Richard Estes's works have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, and the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum.
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In 1971, Richard Estes was granted a National Council for the Arts fellowship.
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Richard Estes was the subject of the documentary Actually Iconic: Richard Estes, directed by Olympia Stone.