“I was never more worried about anything in my life than this,” said artist Chuck Close of “Head-On/The Modern Portrait,” an exhibition that he selected from the Museum of Modern Art’s ...

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Strolling through modern art galleries filled with enormous abstract paintings or provocatively empty minimalist grids, it is often a relief to come upon a painting by Chuck Close. At last!

Chuck Close, Contemporary Painter Chuck Close is considered one of the leading contemporary painters of the 20th and 21st century. His works hang in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney ...

When Chuck Close began his career, few artists were doing portraiture, but over the past four decades, he has never wavered from his chosen subject, taking portraiture into the modern era.

A visitor can taste that difficulty of description even now in the first room of "Chuck Close: Self-Portraits, 1967-2005," which opens today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Close's "Big ...

Chuck Close, a painter, photographer and printmaker ... Close, whose professional highlights include a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1973, was known for using a ...

Just as Chuck Close’s enormous works of art loomed over their onlookers, his legacy looms large over the modern art world. Close, a gruff iconoclast and minimalist who created Photorealist ...

NEW YORK — Chuck Close, a painter, photographer and printmaker ... whose professional highlights include a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1973, was known for using ...

NEW YORK — Chuck Close, a painter, photographer and printmaker ... whose professional highlights include a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1973, was known for using ...

NEW YORK — Chuck Close, a painter, photographer and printmaker ... whose professional highlights include a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1973, was known for using ...