Rodger Bechtold Retrospective - click to see larger on YouTube

Biography

1945 Born in Flint, Michigan
1963-65 Attended American Academy of Art, Chicago, IL
1982-84 Attended School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1992-93 Faculty, Ray College of Design
1993 The Master Program of Santa Fe, Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM—studies with Wolf Kahn
1995 Returns to Santa Fe to paint with Wolf Kahn at his invitation
1998 Included in The Artist and the American Landscape: Two Centuries of American Landscape Painting by John Driscoll, Director of the Babcock Gallery
2001 Two large scale paintings for the Grand Foyer of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts, University of Wisonsin–Green Bay
2005 Featured artist in premier issue of American Art Collector Magazine
2008 Translated Landscapes retrospective at the Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
2009 bookIncluded in Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice, by Mitchell Albala

 

white barn
Veil Of Yellow, oil on linen, 36" x 52"



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