| 2006 |
“Infinite Painting” Villa Manin Centro d’Art Contemporanea Codroipo, Italy |
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“Full House” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| 2004 |
“Watercolor Worlds,” Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY |
| 2003 |
“Friends: Robert Bechtle and Tom Marioni,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA |
| 2002 |
“Vintage Photorealists” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
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“American Standard: (Para)Normality and Everyday Life,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY |
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“As Real as it Gets: Super Realism and Photo-Realism from the Tucson Museum of Art and Private Collections, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ |
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“New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Collection of the Whitney Museum, Palazzo Reale Milan, Italy |
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“Photorealism: The Liff Collection,” Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL |
| 2001 |
“Les Années Pop,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France |
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“This is America: American Photorealists,” Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark |
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“Looking at You,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
| 2000 |
“Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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A Century of the American Dream, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan |
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“Go Figure,” O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY |
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“The Photorealists,” Holmes Galler, Center for the Arts, Vero Beaech, FL |
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“Urban Realism,” Blain Fine Art, London, UK |
| 1999 |
“The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000,” Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY |
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First Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1998 |
“Realism Knows No Bounds,” van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1997 |
“Drawings: Realism to Abstraction: A Contemporary Survey of the Bay Area,” Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA |
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“Photorealists,” Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA |
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“Spring Fever,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA |
| 1997 |
“Structures: Architecture in America Art 1900-1997,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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“Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press,” National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
| 1996 |
“CCAC: Past, Present, and Future (1906-1996),” Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA |
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“Contemporary American Realism,” Posco Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
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“Paper Work,” Louis K Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
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“Generations: The Lineage of Influence in Bay Area Art,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA |
| 1995 |
“The Landscape of American Culture, 1967-1975,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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“Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY |
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“American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,” American Academy of Arts and Letter, New York, NY |
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“Facing Eden, 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area,” The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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“Drawing the Twentieth Century: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| 1994 |
“46th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY |
| 1993 |
“Bay Area Tradition: Robert Bechtle, Christopher Brown, Wayne Thiebaud,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA |
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“A Review,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
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Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minnneapolis, MN |
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“45th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibit,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY |
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“California: Art from the 1930s to the Present,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| 1992 |
“Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: 3 Decades,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA |
| 1991 |
“Traffic Jam: The Automobile in Art,” New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ |
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“Six Takes on Photorealism,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT |
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“American Life in American Art; Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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“Drawing Aquisitions, 1980-1990, Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY |
| 1990 |
“Woodblock Prints From the People’s Republic of China,” Crown Point Press, New York, NY |
| 1989 |
“Robert Bechtle, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham, Malcolm Morley and Sigmar Polke,” Pat Hearn, New York, NY |
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“Under Pressure,” Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL |
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International Biennial of Graphic Art, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia |
| 1988 |
“The Artists of California: A Group Portrait in Mixed Media,” Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA |
| 1987 |
“Realism: The New Generation,” R.H. Love Modern, Chicago, IL |
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“Multiple Realities,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA; Crown Point Gallery New York, NY |
| 1986 |
“Views Across America,” Pfizer Inc., New York, NY. Organized by the Art Advisory Service, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. |
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“Das Automobile in der Kunst 1886-1986,” Haus der Kunst , Munich, Germany |
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“Television’s Impact on Contemporary Art,” The Queens Museum, New York, NY |
| 1985 |
“Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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“Realism: Contemporary Americans,” Hooks‑Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX |
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“Views Across America,” Gannett Company, New York, NY; organized by the Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service |
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“American Realism: Twentieth‑Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C Janss Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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“American Realism,” William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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“American Realism: The Precise Image,” Isetan Museum, Tokyo; Daimaru Museum, Osaka, Japan |
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“Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Collection of Glenn C. Janss,” Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID |
| 1984 |
“Autoscape: The Automobile in the American Landscape,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, CT |
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“Art and the Automobile,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1983 |
“West Coast Realism,” Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA |
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“Realism Now, Museum of Modern Art,” Saitima, Japan |
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“American Super Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection,” Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL |
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“American Interiors,” California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA |
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“Bay Area Art of the Sixties,” University of California at Davis, CA |
| 1982 |
“Drawings by California Painters,” Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA |
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Myers Fine Arts Gallery, State University College, Plattsburgh, NY |
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John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1981 |
“Seven Photorealists from New York Collections,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |
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“Drawing Acquisitions: 1978-1981,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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“Contemporary American Realism since 1960,” Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; traveling to: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; Salas de Exposiciones (Recoletos) Madrid, Spain; Kunsthalle, Nuremburg, West Germany |
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Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale‑on‑Hudson, NY |
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“Changes: Art in America 1881‑1981,” Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI |
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“New York Gallery Showcase,” Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK |
| 1980 |
“Reflections of Realism,” Albuquerque Museum of Art, History and Science, Albuquerque, NM |
| 1979 |
“America in the ’70s as Depicted by Artists in the Richard Brown Baker Collection,” Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI |
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North Texas State University, Denton, TX |
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“Photorealism,” Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut Storrs, CT |
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“Perceiving Time and Space Through Art,” Harnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
| 1978 |
“Representations of America,” Pushkin Fine Art Museum, Moscow, Russia |
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University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA |
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“California: Three by Eight Twice,” Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI |
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“Art and the Automobile,” Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI |
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Albert Contreras Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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“Photo‑Realist Printmaking,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York |
| 1977 |
“Thirty Years of American Art 1945-1975: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY |
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“A View of a Decade,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL |
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“Works on Paper II,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
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“Illusion and Reality,” Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Traveled to Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia |
| 1976 |
“Art 7’76,” Basel, Switzerland |
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“America 1976,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. Traveled to: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI; Fort Worth Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
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“Aspects of Realism,” travelling exhibition sponsored by Rothman’s of Pall Mall Canada Ltd., Stratford, Ont.; Centennial Museum, Vancouver, B.C.; Glenbow‑Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alta.; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask.; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Man.; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alta.; Art Gallery, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s; Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Halifax, N.S.; Windsor Art Gallery, Ont.; London Public Library and Art Museum and McIntosh Memorial Art Gallery; University of Western Ontario; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ont. |
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“Works on Paper,” Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany |
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“Today/Tomorrow,” Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL |
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“Super Realism,” Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD |
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America as Art, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
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“Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington DC |
| 1975 |
“Photo‑Realism: American Painting and Prints,” New Zealand. Traveled to Barrington Gallery, Auckland; Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch; Academy of Fine Arts, National Art Gallery, Wellington; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin; Govett‑Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Waikato Art Museum, Hamilton |
| 1975 |
Richard Brown Baker Collects, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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Carlin Station, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
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“The New Realism: Rip Off or Reality?” Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS |
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“Signs of Life: Symbols in the City,” Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. |
| 1974 |
“Works on Paper,” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
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“Art 5’74,” Basel, Switzerland |
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“Amerikaans fotorealisme grafiek,” Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht; Palais des Beaux‑Arts, Brussels |
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“Tokyo Biennale ‘74,” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art; Kyoto Municipal Museum; Aichi Prefectural Art Museum, Ngoya, Japan |
| 1973 |
“Hyperrealisme,” Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium 1973 “American Art‑‑Third Quarter Century,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
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“Ekstrem realisme,” Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark |
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“Image, Reality, and Superreality,” Arts Council of Great Britain |
| 1973 |
Documenta 5, Kassel, West Germany |
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California Representation: Eight Painters in Documenta 5, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
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“Photorealism,” Serpentine Gallery, London, England |
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Quatrième salon international d’art, Basel, Switzerland |
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“Hyperrealistes Americains,” Galerie Arditti, Paris, France |
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“Grands Maitres Hyperrealistes Americains,” Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France |
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Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| 1972 |
“Amerikanischer Fotorealismus,” Wurttembergischer Kunst‑verein, Stuttgart; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Kunst und Museumsverein, Wuppertal, West Germany |
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“California Prints,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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“The Realist Revival,” New York Cultural Center, New York, NY |
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“Works on Paper,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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“The State of California Painting,” Govett‑Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand |
| 1971 |
“The Shape of Realism,” Deson‑Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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Arts Festival 1971, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY |
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Purdue University, Lafayette, IN |
| 1970 |
Directions 1970, Virginia Museum of FineArts, Richmond, VA |
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“Graphics ‘71,” University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY |
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“West Coast ‘70,” E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA |
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“American Report‑The 1960s,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO |
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Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
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“Cool Realism,” Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY |
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“Twenty‑Two Realists,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| 1969 |
“Painting and Sculpture Today 1969,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK |
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Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN |
| 1969 |
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign‑Urbana, IL |
| 1968 |
“Realism Now,” Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY |
| 1967 |
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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The Artist as His Subject, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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Contemporary Western Painting, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ |
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Painters Behind Painters, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA |
| 1965 |
“Recent California Painting,” Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, CA |
| 1964 |
“Winter Invitational,” California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA |
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
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Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA |
| 1961 |
“Winter Invitational,” California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA |
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San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
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Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA |
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Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA |
| 1960 |
“Winter Invitational,” California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA |
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San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
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Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA |
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Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA |
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“Lithography: Ingres to Picasso,” Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA |
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Library of Congress, Washington D.C. |
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1959 |
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA |
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Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA |
| 1958 |
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA |
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Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA |
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Provincetown Arts Festival, Provincetown, MA |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| 1957 |
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA |
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Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA |
| 2004 |
New York Times, “Robert Bechtle,” Sept. 12. |
| 2000 |
Wall Street Journal , ” Made in California”, David Littlejohn, December 8. |
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New York Times , “Making Pen and Ink Seem Passe: The proliferation of New Ways to Draw”, John Russell, August 18. |
| 1996 |
San Francisco Bay Guardian , “Anne Appleby and Robert Bechtle”, Hary Roche, December 11. |
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New York Times, ” Also of Note”, Pepe Karmel, March 22. |
| 1992 |
New York Times , ” Robert Bechtle”, Robert Smith, November 13. |
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New York Times ( Connecticut Section), “Differences Can Outweigh Similarities in Photo-Realism”, Vivian Rayno, January 5. |
| 1991 |
San Francisco Examiner, “We’ve Been in This Neighborhood Before- or Have We?”, |
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David Bonetti, September 24, p.B3. |
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Art Week , ” Robert Bechtle”, Terri Cohn, May 23, p.13. |
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Los Angeles Times, “Lonely Scenes of Isolation from Bechtle”, Kristine McKenna, April 23, p.F6. |
| 1990 |
San Francisco Chronicle, ” A Familiar Stroll Through Realist Terrain”, Kenneth Backer, July 1, Review/ p.4 |
| 1988 |
Los Angeles Times, “Personality Plus Captured in California Portraits”, Cathy Curtis, |
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May 31, 1988, Part IV/p.4 |
| 1982 |
New York Times, “Pooling of Resources Produces Stimulating Success”, Vivian Raynor, February 7, 1982. |
| 1981 |
Village Voice, “Opposites Attract”, Peter Schjedahl, April 16, 1981. |
| 1978 |
Washington Post, “New Smithsonian Art: From the ”Sublime’ to Photo Realism”, Paul |
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Richard, November 30, 1978. |
| 1977 |
Soho Weekly News , “Four Artists”, John Perrault, December 29, 1977. |
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New York Times , “Art: While Waiting for Tomorrow”, Vivian Raynor, December 29. |
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Melbourne Sun, “Realism from the Squad”, Jeffery Makin, October 19, 1977, p.43. |
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Sunday Telegraph ( New South Wales), ” In Search of Reality” W. E. Pidgeon, July 31. |
| 1976 |
Sydney Morning Hearld, “In Selecting a Common Domestic Object”, Nancy Borlase, December 30. |
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Washington Star, “The New Realism, Paintings Worth 1000 Words”, Benjamin Forgey, November 30, p.G24. |
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Vancouver Sun, “Aspects of Realism”, Mary Fox, September 21, 1976. |
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Soho Weekly News, “Getting Flack”, John Perreault, April22, 1976, p.19. |
| 1975 |
Portland Oregonian, “Coast Artist Credited with New Realists”, Beth Fagan, Sept. 21. |
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San Francisco Chronicle, “A Wide View of the New Realists”, Thomas Albright, February 6, 1975. |
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Toledo Blade, “Brash Paintings Stimulate Thinking Rather than Passive Thoughts”, Louise Bruner, January 12, 1975, p.4. |
| 1974 |
New York Times, “Too Easy to be Art?”, Peter Schjedahl, May 12, 1974, p.23. |
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Soho Weekly News, “On Art”, Peter Frank, April 18, 1974, p.14. |
| 1973 |
Christian Science Monitor, “Today’s Pilgrims”, Corinne Geeting, November 21, 1973. |
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Art Week, “Robert Bechtle Print Retrospective”, Judith Dunham, November 10, 1973. |
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San Francisco Examiner, “Turning Photos into Subtle Art”, Alexaner Fried, November 6. |
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San Francisco Chronicle, “An Artist with Vision”, Thomas Albright, October 26, 1973. |
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San Francisco Chronicle, “A Cool Retrospective of a Master New Realist”, Alfred Frankenstein, October 7, 1973. |
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Sacramento Bee, “A New Realist Takes a Look at Parked Cars”, Charles Johnson, September 16, 1973. |
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Rinascita, “Imperrealismo tra ‘pop’ e informale”, Antonip del Guercio, No. 8, February 23, 1973, p.34. |
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Le Monde , “Le super-realisme”, Jacques Michael, February 6, 1973, p.23. |
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Los Angels Times , “New Realism: Crisp Focus on the American Scene”, Henry J. Seldis, January 21, 1973, p.54. |
| 1970 |
Newsday, ” On the Arts”, Emily Genauer, February 21. |
| 1967 |
San Francisco Examiner , “Review”, Alexander Fried, August 11, 1967. |
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San Francisco Chronicle, “Realism Brought Down to Date”, Alfred Frankenstein, February 2. |