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    Happy 80th birthday Robert Bechtle!  Pictured: Bechtle’s Alameda Gran Torino (1974) From our website: For more than 40 years Robert Bechtle has pursued a quiet realism, working from photographs of familiar subjects to depict precise moments in time. Despite their photographic origins, however, his canvases are resolutely and finally about painting. Underneath the smooth sheen of their surfaces lies a textured web of strokes and dabs, where abstract shapes meet edges to form an intricate, layered view of our environment. Learn more here.

    Happy 80th birthday Robert Bechtle! 

    Pictured: Bechtle’s Alameda Gran Torino (1974)

    From our website: For more than 40 years Robert Bechtle has pursued a quiet realism, working from photographs of familiar subjects to depict precise moments in time. Despite their photographic origins, however, his canvases are resolutely and finally about painting. Underneath the smooth sheen of their surfaces lies a textured web of strokes and dabs, where abstract shapes meet edges to form an intricate, layered view of our environment.

    Learn more here.

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