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Voyages

June 2021

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A new exhibition at Menconi + Schoelkopf focuses on artist Richard Estes’ travel paintings.

- JOHN O'HERN

Voyages

“I grew up in a small town in Illinois,” Richard Estes says. “I never went anyplace. We moved to Chicago when I was 15 and I saw all these fabulous things—skyscrapers, art museums. When I was 18, I went to Europe and traveled for three months by myself. When you’re alone, you have the freedom to do exactly what you want, but it’s sort of lonesome. I prefer traveling with somebody else. I always enjoy sharing things. I travel mostly for art and architecture, concerts and opera in the great European opera houses.” In the U.S., he travels between his two homes, an apartment in New York City and a house on Mount Desert Island in Maine. The cultural experiences of his trip to Europe led him to study art. Photography and drawing had been part of his youth and he had thought he might study architecture. He enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1952. He says of the experience, “I think one of the best things about being a student there was, for example, trying to do a figure painting and then going up into the galleries to see the way El Greco or Degas did it. You can really put your work in the proper perspective that way, and learn from the paintings.”

Recently, he went to see the exhibition

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