:For the wildebeest expert, see Richard Despard Estes.
Richard Nixon | Richard Wagner | Richard Strauss | Richard Branson | Cliff Richard | Richard Gere | Richard Burton | Richard Hammond | Richard | Richard Dawkins | Little Richard | Richard Feynman | Richard Attenborough | Richard M. Daley | Richard I of England | Richard Thompson | Richard Francis Burton | Richard Thompson (musician) | Richard Pryor | Richard Linklater | Richard III of England | Richard Petty | Richard II | Richard II of England | Richard E. Byrd | Maurice Richard Arena | Muhal Richard Abrams | Richard Herring | Richard Wright | Richard Stallman |
Painters—Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack and Chuck Close among them—would create paintings that appeared to be photographs.
The first place winner of the award receives a published interview in Art Interview Online Magazine alongside the interviews of well established artists such as: El Anatsui, Artists Anonymous, Jim Avignon, David Černý, Richard Estes, Janet Fish, Eric Fischl, Alex Katz, Oleg Kulik, Jesus Moroles, Sylvia Sleigh, Richard Stipl and Kehinde Wiley.
The Eva and Brian Sweeney Collection currently consists of about 500 works by artists such as Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Klimt, Khnopff, Alma-Tadema, Klee, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Cornell, Rauschenberg, Doig, Zach Houston, Warhol, Close and Estes.
Along with John Baeder, Richard Estes, Chuck Close, and Ralph Goings, Bechtle is considered to be one of the earliest Photorealists.