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An example of work by Rodger Bechtold
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following was submitted January 2004 by Allen Stebbins, personal friend of the artist.
Rodger Bechtold was born in 1945 in Flint, Michigan, but spent his youth in Peoria, Illinois. He has established his reputation as a landscape painter through his bold use of color, most notably of northern Wisconsin and South Carolina subject matter.
His preferred medium is oil on linen.
He began his formal art training in 1963 at the American Academy of Art and continued in 1982 at the School of the Art Institute, both in Chicago. He was
a member of the faculty of Ray College of Design from 1992-93. In 1993 he studied with Wolf Kahn in Santa Fe, NM. He returned there in 1995 to paint with Kahn at his invitation.
Bechtold's painting, "Hayfield, Second Cutting" was featured in the 1998 book, "The Artist and the American Landscape," by John Driscoll and Arnold Skolnick.
"Wisconsin Hardwoods", his two monumental canvases, were the first acquisitions for the permanent collection of The Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in 2002.
Bechtold lives with his wife in Woodstock, IL where he maintains a studio and one in Washington Island, WI.
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