| RICHARD
ESTES (1932 - )
Born: May 14, 1932, Kewanee, IL
Resides: New York and Maine
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1983 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1990 "Richard Estes: The Complete Prints and the Japan
Paintings,"
Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA
1990 "Richard Estes 1990," Japan Traveling Exhibition:
Isetan Museum,
Tokyo; The Museum of Art, Kintetsu, Osaka; Hiroshima City
Museum
of Contemporary Art, catalogue
1991 "Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes," Portland
Museum of Art, ME
1994 “Paintings 1967-1993”, Louis K. Meisel Gallery,
New York, NY
1995 Marborough Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1983 "Modern Art in the West," Tokyo Metropolitan
Museum of Art
1984 "Andrew Wyeth: A Trojan Horse Modernist," Greenville
County Museum
of Art, Greenville, SC
1984 "On 42nd Street: Artists Visions," Whitney Museum
of American Art at
Philip Morris, New York
1991 "Images in American Art 1960-1990," Southern
Alleghanies Museum of
Art, Saint Francis College Mall, Loretto, PA
1994 “Review of the Season”, Louis K. Meisel Gallery,
New York, NY
1996 “Paper Work”, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New
York, NY, Feb. 3 - 24
1996 “Attention to Detail (Realism in All Forms)”,
Louis K. Meisel
Gallery, New York, NY, March 2 - 23
1997 “Photorealism”, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca
Raton, FL, Jan. 9-31
1997 “Photorealists”, Savannah College of Art and
Design, Savannah, GA,
October 2 - November 25
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Arthur, John. "Conversations with Richard Estes,"
Architectural Digest,
Oct. 1982.
New York Magazine, May 13, 1985, p. 40 illustration.
Meisel, Louis K. "Richard Estes", Composicion Arquitectonica-Art
& Architecture, Feb. 1990, pp. 5 - 24.
New York Magazine, November 26, 1990, ill. p. 38.
Hurwitz, Laurie S. "Richard Estes: Illusion and Reality,"
American Artist, Dec. 1991, pp. 28 - 35.
Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review”, The New York Times,
May 19, 1995, p.C28.
Kramer, Hilton. “Richard Estes, Photorealist: Beautiful
but Dumb”, the New York Observer, June 5, 1995, p.1, p.19.
“The Photorealists,” Savannah College of Art and
Design-The Magazine, Fall/Winter 1997, pp. 33-34.
Tully, Judd. “Buoyant Market for Charles Bell’s
‘Fewer than 200’ Works”,
Art Newsletter, 13 January 1998, Vol. XXIII, No. 10, p. 5.
CATALOGS
Richard Estes: A Decade. Allan Stone Gallery, New York, 1983.
On 42nd Street: Artists Visions. Whitney Museum of American
Art at Philip Morris, New York, Sept. 26 - Dec. 5, 1984.
Arthur, John. Introduction to Richard Estes. traveling exhibition,
Japan: Isetan Museum, Tokyo, July 26 - Aug. 21; The Museum of
Art, Kintetsu, Osaka, Aug. 24 - Sept. 10; Hiroshima City Museum
of Contemporary Art, Sept. 15 - Oct. 21, 1990.
New Art in an Old City/2. with essay by Edward Lucie-Smith.
The Virlane Foundation and The K & B Corporation Collections,
New Orleans, LA, pp.37-38, 1994.
Van Baron, Judith & Betz, Margaret. Photorealists, Savannah
College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, 1997.
SELECTED BOOKS
Arthur, John. Realists at Work: Studio Interviews and Working
Methods of 10 Leading Contemporary Painters, New York: Watson-Guptill,
1983.
Finch, Christopher. American Watercolors, New York: Abbeville
Press, 1986.
Meisel, Louis K., and John Perreault. Richard Estes: The Complete
Paintings
1966-1985. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986.
Mathey, Francois. American Realism: A Pictorial Survey from
the Early 18th
Century to the Seventies. New York: Portland House, 1987.
Arthur, John. Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting
and The
American Tradition. Boston: Bulfinch Press, Little Brown, 1989.
Wood, Michael, et al. Art of the Western World. New York: Summit
Books, 1989.
Arthur, John( introduction by). Richard Estes 1990, Japan Traveling
Exhibition: Isetan Museum, Tokyo; The Museum of Art, Kintetsu,
Osaka; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990.
Polsky, Richard. Art Market Guide. San Francisco: The Marlit
Press, 1998
p. 42.
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