Richard McLean
Richard Thorpe McLean (born April 12, 1934 in Hoquiam , Washington , USA ; † January 3, 2014 in Castro Valley , California , USA ) was an American contemporary painter , printmaker and important exponent of photorealism . He was one of the representatives of the first generation of photo realists and was particularly known for his horse pictures .
Life
Richard McLean studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland until 1958 and at Mills College in Oakland in 1962 . He had his first solo exhibition in 1957 at the Lucien Labaudt Gallery in San Francisco .
In addition to landscape paintings, the subjects of his photorealistic paintings were almost exclusively horses. He portrayed these in all situations and situations, with their riders, at tournaments or in the pasture. Richard McLean was a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the pioneering Realism department with three pictures .
Richard McLean's paintings are part of important international and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Sprengel Museum in Hanover and the Berardo Museum in Lisbon , Portugal .
McLean lived in Oakland and most recently in Castro Valley , California , where he died in early 2014 at the age of 59.
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard McLean - Obituary , legacy.com, accessed February 4, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McLean, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McLean, Richard Thorpe (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and printmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hoquiam , Washington , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 2014 |
| Place of death | Castro Valley , California , USA |