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Robert Bechtle, artist
American, b. 1932
Angel Watching, 1960
Color Lithograp
56.6 x 35.3 cm (image); 58.7 x 44.5 cm (sheet)
Acquired by exchange from the artist 1971.31.11

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Artist Biography: Robert Bechtle has lived all his life in the San Francisco Bay Area, and his work has been greatly influenced by his surroundings. Bechtle*s paintings and prints almost always include what he calls *California subject matter* such as cars and sunlit middle-class neighborhoods. He works from photographs in a way that identifies him with photo-realism. Bechtle first came to Crown Point Press in the 1960s and began on an etching project that was never completed. Returning in 1983, he made a number of soft ground etchings that Kathan Brown considers some of the best ever done. Bechtle was the second artist to participate in Crown Point Press*s China program in 1989-1990, producing among others, *Albany Monte Carlo* 1990 (no. 123 in the exhibition catalogue, Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art) .~~PERSONAL HISTORY:~Robert Bechtle was born in 1932 in San Francisco, California. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Whitney Chadwick, a professor of art history at San Francisco State University.~~EDUCATION:~Bechtle received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1954 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1958.~~ACADEMIC CAREER:~Bechtle has had a long teaching career beginning at the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1957 and continuing at the University of California, Berkeley (1956-66); University of California, Davis (1967-68); San Francisco Art Institute (1975); and San Francisco State University (1968 to the present).~

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