Richard Estes

Selected Group Exhibitions

1966

Ninety-ninth Exhibition, American Watercolor Society, National Academy Galleries, New York

1967

Biennial Exhibition of American Art, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois

1968

Realism Now, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York

The Wellington-Ivest Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

1969

American Report on the ‘60s, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois

Directions 2: Aspects of a New Realism, Akron Art Institute, Ohio, traveled to; Milwaukee Art Center, Wisconsin; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

Painting and Sculpture Today, 1969, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

Painting from the Photo, Riverside Museum, New York

Thirty-fourth Annual Mid-Year Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

1970

American Painting 1970, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

Centennial Exhibit, Indiana State University, Indianapolis, Indiana

Cool Realism, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, traveled to; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

The Cool Realists, Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona del Mar, California

Directly Seen-New Realism in California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Balboa, California

The Highway, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, traveled to; Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, Texas; Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio

New Realism ‘70, Neadley Hall Gallery, St. Cloud State College, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Painting and Sculpture Today, 1970, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

22 Realists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

1971

Art Around the Automobile, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York

Art of the 1960’s, Sammlung Ludwig, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany; traveled to; the National Academy of Design, New York, New York

Contemporary Selections 1971, Birmingham Museum, Birmingham, Alabama

Neue Amerikanische Realisten, Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, Germany

New Realism, State University College, Potsdam, New York

New Realism, Old Realism, Bernard Danenberg Gallery, New York, New York

Radical Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

Thirty-second Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

1972

Colossal Scale, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York

Documenta and No-Documenta Realists, Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, Germany

Documenta 5, Kassel, West Germany

L’Hyperréalistes Américains, Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France

Phases of the New Realism, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

The Realist Revival, New York Cultural Center, New York, New York

Seventieth American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Sharp-Focus Realism, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York

Thirty-sixth International Biennial Exhibition, Venice, Italy

Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

1972-73

Amerikanischer Fotorealismus, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, traveled to; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Kunst und Museumsverein, Wuppertal, West Germany

1973

American Art Third Quarter Century, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

Amerikansk Realism, Galleri Ostergren, Malmö, Sweden

East Coast/West Coast/New Realism, University Art Gallery, San Jose State University, California

The Emerging Real, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, traveled to; Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy

Grand Maitres Hyperréalistes Américains, Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France

Hyperréalistes Américains, Galerie Arditti, Paris, France

Iperrealisti Americani, Galleria La Medusa, Rome

Mit Kamera, Pinsel und Spritzpistole, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, West Germany

Options 73/30, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Photo-Realism, Serpentine Gallery, London

The Super-Realist Vision, DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts

Twenty-five Years of American Painting, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa

Hyperréalisme, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium

1973-78

Photo-Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., traveled to; Johnson Museum, Ithaca, New York;

Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, New York; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania; University of Texas Art Gallery, Austin, Texas; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas

1974

Amerikaans Fotorealisme Grafiek, Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht, traveled to; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Ars ‘74 Ateneum, Fine Arts Academy of Finland, Helsinki, Finland

Art 5, ‘74, Basel, Switzerland

Contemporary American Paintings from the Lewis Collection, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Deleware

Hyperréalistes Américains-Réalistes Européens, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France

Kijken Naar de Werkelijkheid, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

New Images: Figuration in American Painting, Queens Museum, Flushing, New York

New Photo-Realism, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Seventy-first American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Three Realists: Close, Estes, Raffael, Worcester Art Museum, Worchestor, Massachusetts

Tokyo Biennale, ‘74, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, traveled to; Kyoto Municipal Museum; Aichi Prefectural Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan

Twelve American Painters, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

Twenty-five Years of Janis: Part II, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York

1975

Photo-Realists, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, New York

Realismus und Realität, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, West Germany

Trends in Contemporary American Realist Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Watercolors and Drawings-American Realists, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, New York

1976

Alumni Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

America as Art, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

American Master Drawings and Watercolors: Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Art 7 ‘76, Basel, Switzerland

A Selection of American Art, The Skowhegan School 1946-1976, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, traveled to; Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine

Seventy-second American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Super Realism, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

Three Decades of American Art, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Urban Aesthetics, Queens Museum, Flushing, New York

1976-77

Photo Realism in Painting, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida, traveled to; the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida

1976-78

America 1976: A Bicentennial Exhibition, curated by John Arthur, sponsored by the United States Department of the Interior, (all works for this exhibition were created expressly for the exhibition), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., traveled to; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; The Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York

Aspects of Realism, sponsored by Rothman’s of Pall Mall Canada, Ltd., Stratford, Candada, traveled in Canada to; Centennial Museum, Vancouver; Glenbow- Alberta Institute, Calgary; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Edmonton Art Gallery; Art Gallery, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s; Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, P.E.I.; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal; Dalhousie University Museum and Gallery, Halifax; Windsor Art Gallery, Ontario; London Public Library and Art Museum and McIntosh Memorial Art Gallery, University of Western Ontario; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario

1977

New Acquisitions Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

New Realism, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida

A View of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

Washington International Art Fair, Washington, D.C.

Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Works on Paper II, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, New York

1977-78

Illusion and Reality, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, traveled in Australia 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

1978

Art About Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, traveled to; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina; Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, California; Portland Art Museum, Portand, Oregon

Art and the Automobile, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Flint, Michigan, traveled to; Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey

Photo-Realist Printmaking, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, New York, traveled to; Tolarno Galleries; Melbourne, Australia

Works by Living Artists from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Block, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California

1979

America in the 70s as Depicted by Artists in the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan

1980

Directions in Realism, Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts

The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Realism/Photorealism, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Arizona

1981

Real, Really Real, Super Real, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, traveled to; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana; Tucson Museum of Art, Tuscon, Arizona; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Seven Photorealists from New York Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York

Toyama Now ‘81, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan

1981-82

Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, traveled to; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia; Oakland Museum, Oakland, California. USICA-sponsored tour: Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, West Germany

Super Realism From the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, traveled to; the Art Center, Inc., South Bend, Michigan; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri; Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Hanover, New Hampshire; DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa

1982

An Appreciation of Realism, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, New York

Assignment: Aviation, sponsored by Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Georgia, traveled to; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri

Photo-Réalisme-Dix Ans Après, Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France

1983

American Super Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois

Modern Art in the West, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Realism Now, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan

Americans in Venice 1873-1913 (Estes was the only contemporary painter included) Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York, traveled to; The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts

Through the Looking Glass: Reflected Images in Contemporary Art, The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York

1984

America Seen, Adams-Middleton Gallery, Dallas, Texas

What’s New? Important Recent Acquisitions & New Directions, Byer Museum of the Arts, Evanston, Illinois

1985

American Realism: The Precise Image, Isetan Museum, Tokyo, traveled to; Daimaru Museum, Osaka, Japan; Yokohama Takashimaya, Yokohama, Japan

1983-1985

Assignment: Aviation-The Stuart M Speiser Photo-Realist Collection, Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition, Anchorage Historical & Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage, Arkansas; Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, Colorado; Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, Maryland; Columbus Museum of Arts & Sciences, Columbus, Georgia; Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin; The Dane G. Hanson Memorial Museum, Logan, Kansas

1986

An American Renaissance-Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape 1960-85, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; The New York Academy of Art, New York, New York

1986-87

American Realism-20th Century Drawings and Watercolors From the Glenn C. Janss Collection, organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, traveling exhibition

1987

The Urban Landscape, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, New York

1988

20th Anniversary (15 in SoHo)-Artists & Movements From our First Two Decades, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, New York

1989

New York: City By Day/City By Night, Gallery Henoch, New York, New York

Contemporary Scenes of New York City, Associated American Artists, New York, New York

1991

Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, New York

Images in American Art: 1960-1990, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Lorretto, Pennsylvania

In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York

1991-92

American Realism & Figurative Art: 1952-1990, curated by John Arthur, organized by the Miyagi Museum of Art, the Japan Association of Art Museums, and the Yomuiri Shimbun, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, traveled in Japan to; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama; The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga; and Kochi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kochi

1992

Six Takes on Photo-Realism, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut

On the Edge: Forty Years of Maine Painting, 1952-1992, curated by Theodore F. Wolff, Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, Maine, traveled to the University of Maine at Presque Isle

1994

American Realism + Figurative Painting, Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1994-95

New York Realism: Past & Present, organized by the Japan Association of Art Museums, Tokyo, Japan, Odakyu Museum, Tokyo, Japan, traveled in Japan to Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Kagoshima; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu; The Museum of Art, Kintetsu, Osaka; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima; traveled in the United States to; The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa Florida

1995

Retrat de Barcelona,Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona, Spain

Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Unser Jahrhundert Menschenbilder-Bilderwelten, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany

1996

The Landscape of American Culture, 1967-1975, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California

Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas, curated by Alan Gussow and Gayle Maxon-Edgerton, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, traveled to: Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina (1998)

On Paper, galleria d’arte il gabbiano, Rome, Italy

La Ville Moderne en Europe: Visions Urbaines d’Artistes et d’Architectes, 1870-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Realism after Seven A.M., The Hopper House, Nyack, NY

1997

ART 1997 CHICAGO: 5th Annual Expo of International Galleries Featuring Modern and Contemporary Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL

CityScapes, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY

Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban, Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY

1998

New York Perspectives, MB Modern, New York, NY

Le Futur du Passé, Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Corbières Maritimes, France

2001

Third Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Figuras: Visiones del Arte Contemporáneo, Centro Cultural Puerta Real, Granada, Spain

ReApperance: Realism in Contemporary Art, Simmons Visual Arts Gallery, Brenau University, Gainesville, GA

2003

Transforming the Commonplace: Masters of Contemporary Realism, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania