McLEAN RICHARD
(Born in 1934)
| Nationality: | American |
| Activity: | Painter |
| Average rate: | Between $ 8,000 and 13,000 for 65x50 cm formats |
Like many hyperrealist painters, McLean only became notorious in the early 1970s, notably at the Kassel Documenta Fair in 1972.
He studied painting from 1955 to 1958 at the California College of Arts and Crafts and exhibited his works in 1957 in San Francisco.
McLean also took part in a group exhibition titled «East Bay Realists» in San Francisco in 1966 and had a one-man show in that city two years later.
Realism became quite fashionable in the U.S at the end of the 1960s and Mclean took part in many shows related to that theme, notably «22 Realists» at the Whitney Museum in New York in 1970, «Radical Realism» at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1971, «Sharp Focus Realism» in New York in 1972, the Kassel Documenta as well as in many other exhibitions in the U.S and abroad.
Meeting success, McLean stuck to one theme, that is to say horses and accompanying figures, racehorses with jockeys, military horses and farm horses with the animal playing a major role at the expense of figures or surrounding landscapes.
Mclean however said that despite the fact that his subjects were animals and men, he considered himself essentially as a painter of still lifes without explaining whether he was referring to his early career or to the fact that he assimilated horses to still lifes.
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