Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
20th St.-Early Sunday Morning
Image View:
overall view with frame
Creator:
Robert Alan Bechtle (American painter, born 1932)
Location:
repository: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States) 2013.009
Location Note:
5600 Mayflower Hill; The Lunder Collection
GPS:
44.565-69.660833
Date:
1997 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Photorealist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
96.52 cm (height) x 171.45 cm (width)
Subjects:
architecture; cityscape; contemporary (1960 to present); Automobiles; San Francisco; streetscape; cars; deserted
Description:
Bechtle achieves an uncanny stylistic remove from his subjects through the use of slides, which he projects onto his canvases at the outset of his painting process. This work, whose title and deserted aspect pay homage to Edward Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning (1930), presents a steeply angled view of a San Francisco neighborhood whose surfaces display stark shifts between areas of deep shadow and bright light. (Source: Colby Museum of Art [website]; http://www.colby.edu /museum/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-BECHTLE-CA-ES-A0 1
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

20th St.-Early Sunday Morning