U-BAN
Richard Estes (born 1936)

Richard Estes is an American photorealistic painter best known for his clean, reflective, and inanimate city scenes and geometric landscapes. He is attributed as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, along painters such as Malcolm Morley, Chuck Close, and Duane Hanson. His works have been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum, and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In 1971, Richard was granted a National Council for the Arts fellowship.

Created in 1980, the U-BAN is an acrylic and oil painting that measures 14 by 20 inches on canvas board. This piece was previously displayed in the Louis K. Meisel Gallery in New York. It was acquired Sotheby’s New York on November 9, 1989. From January through February 1996, U-BAN was exhibited by Hirschl & Adler Galleries as part of “Picturing Gotham: New York City through the Eyes of Its Artists.”