Urban landscapes I
1972
- Medium
- colour screenprint
- Accession Number
- 2021.194.1-8
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Noel Belcher Bequest, Max Smith, Diana Lempriere and 2020-2021 Richard Estes Appeal donors, 2021 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Richard Estes is one of the leading artists associated with photorealism, a movement that emerged in America in the late 1960s. He is known for his detailed, coolly detached oil paintings and screenprints of the urban environment. Estes worked from photographs, which he modified by introducing different perspectives and reflections to create complex compositions that reconstruct, rather than record, reality. Urban Landscapes I is the first of many print series made by Estes. It presents New York’s shop windows, street signage and skyscraper forecourts in richly coloured screenprints of great visual and technical complexity.