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Richard McLean was an American painter known for photorealist depictions of horses and rural scenes rendered with meticulous technical precision. Working primarily in acrylic and oil throughout the postwar period, McLean developed a practice centered on the careful transcription of photographic source material into large-scale paintings that examine the relationship between mechanical reproduction and painterly craft. His work occupied a distinctive position within American photorealism, balancing documentary fidelity with subtle formal interventions that revealed the constructed nature of photographic vision itself.

Hoquiam, WA, USA