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Richard Estes

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Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932, in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with such painters as John Baeder, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, and Duane Hanson. Author Graham Thompson writes "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Estes is the 1,000th most popular painter (up from 1,190th in 2019), the 3,815th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,915th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Richard Estes ranks 1,000 out of 2,023. Before him are Walter Crane, Frans Francken the Younger, Mór Than, Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, and Giovanni di Paolo. After him are Antonio López García, Jan Wildens, Nikolai Yaroshenko, Cy Twombly, Emanuel Leutze, and David Roberts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Richard Estes ranks 186. Before him are Miloslav Vlk, Richard Lester, Hassan Al-Turabi, John Hillerman, Jean-Pierre Marielle, and Lia Manoliu. After him are Harry Gregg, Horst Eckel, Karen Demirchyan, Vladimir Voinovich, Alexander Kluge, and Dabney Coleman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Estes ranks 3,815 out of 20,380. Before him are Ignacio Zaragoza (1829), Stephen Kovacevich (1940), Alexandra Breckenridge (1982), Michael Buffer (1944), Sam Loyd (1841), and Robert Gates (1943). After him are Lindsey Buckingham (1949), Sung Kang (1972), Jack Johnson (1878), Cherry Jones (1956), Ed Begley (1901), and S. S. Van Dine (1888).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Richard Estes ranks 42. Before him are Beatrice Wood (1893), Bruce Nauman (1941), Gilbert Stuart (1755), Evel Knievel (1938), Winslow Homer (1836), and James Rosenquist (1933). After him are Cy Twombly (1928), Gutzon Borglum (1867), Allan Kaprow (1927), Benjamin West (1738), Frederic Edwin Church (1826), and Carl Andre (1935).

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