Richard Estes

Biographical Information
1936	Born in Kewanee, Illinois
Education
1952–1956	Studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
Selected Exhibitions
2021	"Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes," Portland Museum of Art
	"Richard Estes: Voyages," Menconi Schoelkopf
2017	"Richard Estes: Obra Reciente," Marlborough Barcelona; Barcelona, Spain
	The "American Dream: American Realism 1945–2017," Drents Museum; Assen, Netherlands; Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
2016	Solo Exhibition, Art Basel Miami Beach; Miami, Florida
	"Summer Group Exhibition," Marlborough Gallery, New York
	"Art of Acadia," Northeast Harbor Library; Northeast Harbor, Maine
2015	"Richard Estes: Painting New York City," Museum of Art and Design, New York
	"Richard Estes: African Sketches," Marlborough Broome Street, New York
	"Summer Group Exhibition," Marlborough Gallery, New York
2014	"Richard Estes: Recent Paintings;" Marlborough Gallery, New York
	"Richard Estes’ Realism: A Retrospective," The Portland Museum of Art; Portland, Maine
	"Photorealism: Revisited," Mana Contemporary; Jersey City, New Jersey
2013	"Photorealism," Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery; Birmingham, England
	"Fernando Botero, Richard Estes, Manolo Valdes: Peintures et Sculptures;" Marlborough Monaco; Monte Carlo, Monaco
2012	"Richard Estes: New York by Night," Marlborough Gallery, New York
	"Richard Estes: The Urban Landscape," Sims Reed Gallery, United Kingdom
	"Guggenheim Collection: The American Avant-Garde 1945–1980;" Palazzo delle Esposizioni; Rome, Italy
	"Painting Air: Spencer Finch," Museum of Rhode Island School of Design; Providence, Rhode Island
	"(Space) Travel," Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; Ithaca, New York
	"ReFocus: Art of the ‘70s," Museum of Contemporary Art; Jacksonville, Florida
	"Photorealism: Painting with a Camera," Kunsthalle Tübingen; Tübingen, Germany
	"Exposition de groupe," Marlborough Monaco, Monaco
	"Leben Mit Pop!" Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig; Leipzig, Germany
	"Multiplicity," Arkansas Arts Center; Little Rock, Arkansas
	"Group Exhibition," Marlborough Monaco, Monaco
	"Summer Group Exhibition," Marlborough New York, New York
	"Optical Noise," David Winton Bell Gallery; Providence, Rhode Island
2011	"Multiplicity," Smithsonian American Art Museum; Washington, D.C.
	"Summer Group Exhibition;" Marlborough Gallery, New York
	"Recent Acquisitions," Reading Public Museum; Reading, Pennsylvania
	"The American Art: Masterpieces of Everyday Life from the Whitney Museum of American Art," National Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Art Museum; Deoksugung, Korea
	"Our Own Directions: Four Decades of Photorealism from the Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel Collection," Mana Contemporary; Jersey City, New Jersey
	"East of Eden/Photorealism: Versions of Reality/Photorealism as a Cold War Phenomenon," Ludwig Museum; Budapest, Hungary
	"An American Collection," National Academy Museum and School, New York
	"The 100th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art: The Vision Endures," Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College; Lynchburg, Virginia
	"New York For Sale," Katonah Museum of Art; Katonah, New York
	"Scream Collection Part II," Scream London; London, England
	"Hyper Real: Kunst und Amerika um 1970," Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst; Aachen, Germany
	"Graphics Group Exhibition," Marlborough New York, New York
2010	"Richard Estes," Marlborough Monaco; Monte Carlo, Monaco
	"Realism, the Adventure of Reality: Courbet, Hopper, Gursky…," Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung; Munich, Germany
	"10 ans deja," Marlborough Monaco; Monte Carlo, Monaco
2009	"Summer Exhibition," Marlborough Gallery, New York
	"Volunteer Voices: Selections from the Collection of the Kemper Museum," The Kemper Museum; Kansas City, Missouri
	"American Dream," The National Museum of Krakow; Krakow, Poland
	"Cityscapes: Work of the Photorealists," Art Museum of Southeast Texas; Beaumont, Texas
	"Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970s," Deutsche Guggenheim; Berlin, Germany
2008	"Richard Estes: Antarctica, New England and New York," Marlborough Gallery, New York
	"Richard Estes: Die Serigraphien," Edition Domberger; Filderstadt, Germany
	"Shock of the Real: Photorealism Revisited," Boca Raton Museum of Art; Boca Raton, Florida
	"Group Exhibition," Marlborough Monaco; Monte Carlo, Monaco
2007	"Richard Estes—La sensualità del reale," Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia; Florence, Italy. Traveled to Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza; Madrid, Spain
	"Summer Exhibition," Marlborough Gallery, New York
	"Painting and Sculpture," Marlborough Gallery, New York
2006	"Richard Estes: Recent Work," Marlborough Gallery, New York
	"Variations on a Theme: American Prints from Albers to Lichtenstein, A Selection from the Anderson Graphic Arts Collection;" Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, California
	"Highlights: Print Selections from the Permanent Collection," The Museum of the Arts of Virginia Commonwealth University, Anderson Gallery; Richmond, Virginia
2005	"Sets, Series and Suites: Contemporary Prints," Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, Massachusetts
	"Landscape, Cityscape," Marlborough Gallery, New York
	"Big City: Cityscapes and Urban Life from the Collection," Orme Lewis Gallery, Art Museum; Phoenix, Arizona
	"Who is Imitating Whom? Photography and Photo-Realism in Art," Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska; Lincoln, Nebraska. Traveled to Chadron State College, Chadron Nebraska; McKinley Center, North Platte, Nebraska; Cornerstone Bank, Hork, Nebraska; High Plains Museum, McCook, Nebraska; Stuhr Museum, Grand Island, Nebraska; and Columbus Art Gallery, Columbus, Nebraska.
2004	"La Ingenieria Civil en la Pintura," Sala de Exposiciones de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando; Madrid, Spain
2003	"Pinturas Recientes," AMS Marlborough; Santiago, Chile
	"Oeuvres Récentes," Marlborough Monaco, Monaco
2002	"Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection." Traveled to City Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
2001	"Richard Estes: Recent Paintings," Marlborough Gallery, New York
	"Richard Estes: Recent Works," Marlborough Fine Art; London, England
1999	"Richard Estes," Central Cultural Recoleta; Buenos Aires, Argentina
1998	"Richard Estes: Obra Reciente," Galeria Marlborough; Madrid, Spain
	"Richard Estes: Six New Paintings," Marlborough Gallery, New York
1995	"Richard Estes: New York Paintings," Marlborough Gallery, New York
1992–1995	"Richard Estes: The Complete Prints," The Museums at Stonybrook, New York. Traveled to Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont; Louisiana Arts & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee; and other venues.
1993	"Richard Estes: New York Cityscapes," FIAC 1993 and Grand Palais for Marlborough Gallery, New York
1991	"Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes," Portland Museum of Art; Portland, Maine
1990	"Richard Estes 1990," Isetan Museum of Art; Tokyo, Japan. Traveled to Museum of Art, Kinetsu, Osaka, Japan; and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan.
	"Richard Estes: The Complete Prints and the Japan Paintings," Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University; Cambridge, Massachusetts
1985	Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York
1983	"Richard Estes: A Decade," Allan Stone Gallery, New York
1978–1979	"Richard Estes: The Urban Landscape," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. Traveled to Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1974	"Richard Estes," Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Illinois
1972	Allan Stone Gallery, New York
	Thirty-sixth International Biennial Exhibition; Venice, Italy
1968	Hudson River Museum; Yonkers, New York
	Allan Stone Gallery, New York
1967	"Biennial Exhibition of American Art," Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois; Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
1966	"American Watercolor Society Ninety-ninth Annual Exhibition," National Academy Galleries, New York
Public Collections
	Académie Francaise; Paris, France
	Addison Gallery of American Art Phillips Academy; Andover, Massachusetts
	Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Buffalo, New York
	Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College; Oberlin, Ohio
	Akron Art Museum; Akron, Ohio
	Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
	Art Museum of Southeast Texas; Beaumont, Texas
	Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango; Bogotá, Colombia
	Boca Raton Museum of Art; Boca Raton, Florida
	Butler Institute of American Art; Youngstown, Ohio
	Colby College Museum of Art; Waterville, Maine
	Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Bentonville, Arkansas
	Currier Gallery of Art; Manchester, New Hampshire
	Des Moines Art Center; Des Moines, Iowa
	Detroit Institute of Arts; Detroit, Michigan
	Erie Museum; Erie, Pennsylvania
	Farnsworth Art Museum; Rockland, Maine
	Fine Arts Museum; San Francisco, California
	Flint Institute of Arts; Flint, Michigan
	Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Fort Wayne, Indiana
	Harvard Art Museum; Cambridge, Massachusetts
	Herbert F. Johnson Museum; Cornell University; Cornell, New York
	Hechinger Collection; Washington, D.C.
	High Museum of Art; Atlanta, Georgia
	Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Washington, D.C.
	Indianapolis Museum of Art; Indianapolis, Indiana
	J. P. Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York
	Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Kansas City, Missouri
	La Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango; Bogotá, Colombia
	Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami; Miami, Florida
	Ludwig Forum for Internationale Kunst; Aachen, Germany
	Museum Ludwig; Budapest, Hungary
	Museum Ludwig; Cologne, Germany
	Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig; Vienna, Austria
	Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen Ludwig Collection; Aachen, Germany
	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	MIT List Visual Arts Center; Cambridge, Massachusetts
	Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Fort Worth, Texas
	Museum of Modern Art, New York
	Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza; Madrid, Spain
	Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Illinois
	Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, Massachusetts
	National Academy, New York
	National Air And Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Washington, D.C.
	National Gallery of Art; Washington, D.C.
	National Gallery of Australia; Canberra, Australia
	Nelson-Atkins Museum Of Art; Kansas City, Missouri
	Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen, Ludwig Collection; Aachen, Germany
	Norton Simon Museum Of Art; Pasadena, California
	Orlando Museum of Art; Orlando, Florida
	Philadelphia Museum of Art; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
	Portland Museum of Art; Portland, Maine
	Portland Art Museum; Portland, Oregon
	Princeton Museum of Fine Arts; Princeton, New Jersey
	Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art; South Brisbane, Australia
	Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; Waltham, Massachusetts
	San Antonio Museum of Art; San Antonio, Texas
	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco, California
	Scheringa Museum voor Realisme; Spanbroek, Netherlands
	Smith College Museum of Art; Northampton, Massachusetts
	Smithsonian American Art Museum; Washington, D.C.
	Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Washington, D.C.
	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
	Springfield Museum of Fine Arts; Springfield, Massachusetts
	Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation
	Tate Gallery; London, England
	Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art; Tehran, Iran
	The Brooklyn Museum of Art; Brooklyn, New York
	The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens; San Marino, California
	The Virlane Foundation; New Orleans, Louisiana
	Toledo Museum of Art; Toledo, Ohio
	VandenBroek Foundation, Netherlands
	Vero Beach Museum; Vero Beach, Florida
	Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Richmond, Virginia
	Walker Art Center; Minneapolis, Minnesota
	Westmoreland Museum of American Art; Greensburg, Pennsylvania
	Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
	Worcester Art Museum Collection; Worcester, Massachusetts
	Yale University Art Gallery; New Haven, Connecticut