1. Chuck Close Super-Realist to Formalist

2. Leslie 1974 Watercolor on paper 72.5” x 57” Does this look like a photograph?

3. Look close r. (Detail) Leslie

4. Does this look like a photograph? Fanny / Fingerpainting 1985 Oil on canvas 102” x 84”

5. Look close r. (Detail) Fanny It was painted using fingerprints. There is no white paint used.

6. Chuck Close in front of one of his paintings.

7. The rest of the story...

8. If you squint your eyes the left side looks as real as the right side. This method is how Chuck Close prepares for one of his paintings. Drawing for Phil 1976

9. Self-Portrait 1991 Oil on Canvas 100” x 84” If you squint your eyes this looks like a photograph.

10. Look close r.

13. Marquette for Roy (Polaroid Photograph 20” x 24” with grid) 1993

14. (Detail) Roy II 1994

15. Eric (in progress) 1990 Oil on Canvas 100” x 84” How it’s done...

16. Chuck Close at work in his studio on a painting of Elizabeth.

17. Elizabeth 1989 Oil on Canvas 72” x 60”

18. Other Realist Artists Jacques-Louis David Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres John Singleton Copley Richard Estes Robert Cottingham Audrey Flack Janet Fish

19. Jacques-Louis David The Anger of Achilles, 1819

20. Portrait of Monsieur DeVillers 1840 Jean-Auguste Dominque Ingres

21. The Contesse D’ Haussonville 1845 Jean-Auguste Dominque Ingres

22. Francois-Marius Garnet 1807 Jean-Auguste Dominque Ingres

23. Sir William Pepperrell and His Family, 1778 John Singleton Copley

24. Henry Pelham (Boy with A Squirrel) 1765 John Singleton Copley

25. Richard Estes Parking Lot

26. Richard Estes Urban Landscape Series

27. KURTZ Robert Cottingham

28. ME Robert Cottingham

29. Marilyn Audrey Flack

30. Green Tea Cup Janet Fish