During his freshman year of high school, Goings became exposed to art and painting in an art class and was inspired by his discovery of Rembrandt at his local library.
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After he served in the military, he enrolled in Hartnell College, in Salinas, California and was approached and encouraged to attend art school by Leon Amyx, who was the head of the art department at Hartnell at that time and a well known painter.
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Along with John Baeder, Richard Estes, Chuck Close, and Ralph Goings, Bechtle is considered to be one of the earliest Photorealists.