Richard McLean
Richard McLean (1934–2014) was a leading artist in the Photorealist movement.
Also recorded as Richard Thorpe McLean · Richard MacLean
Richard McLean
- Born
- 1934. · Hoquiam.
- Died
- 2014.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- painter and printmaker.
- Education
- California College of the Arts and Mills College at Northeastern University.
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Richard McLean (1934–2014) was a leading artist in the Photorealist movement.
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Richard McLean studied at California College of the Arts and Mills College at Northeastern University. Employment is recorded with San Francisco State University. Work by Richard McLean is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Centraal Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Yale University Art Gallery and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Born in Hoquiam, Washington, McLean graduated with a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he had studied under Richard Diebenkorn, and received an MFA from Mills College in 1962. McLean became well known for painting horses and western American subject matter in a photorealist style. Like other West Coast photorealists like Ralph Goings and Robert Bechtle, he was included in the exhibitions Twenty-Two Realists at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1970) and Documenta 5 (1972) in Kassel, Germany. McLean taught at San Francisco State University for thirty years.
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