A master of contemporary realism, Estes is primarily known as a painter of urban scenes.

Richard Estes is considered the foremost practitioner of the international group of artists known loosely as photorealists and has been celebrated for more than forty-five years as the premier painter of American cityscapes. 

Richard Estes’ Realism is the most comprehensive exhibition of Estes’ paintings ever organized.

 A master of contemporary realism, Estes is primarily known as a painter of urban scenes. 

The exhibition features forty-six paintings spanning a fifty-year career, including a number of works from private collections that are rarely seen publicly. 

The exhibition also shows, for the first time, Estes’ panoramic landscape paintings and water scenes alongside his more famous cityscapes, offering new insights into Estes’ particular vision.