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Robert Bechtle - b. May 14, 1932…

“Bechtle’s re-creations of Bay Area middle-class suburban houses, cul-de-sacs, and parked cars document an American suburbia at once banal and reassuring. The effect has led critics to compare his work to that of seventeenth-century Dutch genre painters who nostalgically documented bourgeois life. Bechtle has said he hopes viewers might “find significance in the details of the commonplace.”” - National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996).

Robert Bechtle: ‘63 Bel Air, 1973 - Oil on canvas (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth)