Mr. Mayer acquired modern, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionist and Photo Realist works over 35 years until his death in 1974.

The Photo Realist known for his paintings of neon signs presents impressive big pictures of old typewriters at Forum.

Some images suggest that Mr. Richter may deserve the dubious title of greatest living Photo Realist, so assiduously has he manipulated the terms of that style.

James Valerio, a Chicago painter, is a skillful, unpredictable Photo Realist with sometimes goofy allegorical pretensions.

And it has been succeeded by several generations of artists who have once more embraced images and overt subject matter, from the Pop Artists and Photo Realists to Conceptualists and appropriation artists like Ms. Sherman and Mr. Longo.

Mr. Nesbitt was frequently grouped with the Photo Realists, but his images were more interpretively distorted, somewhat loosely painted and boldly abbreviated.

Here, he seems to have shifted into overproduction, adding pleasing color and a surface slickness that pushes the abstract toward the Photo Realist (Smith).

Jerry Ott is a true master airbrush artist and a leading painter in the 'Photo Realist' school of painting that emerged in the 1960s.

He objects to the labels attached to his creations: "Calling me Photo Realist was a nasty put-down."

Where Photo Realists and Pop Realists assert a coolly ironic stance towards similar imagery [11], Stout expresses an interest in the psychological and emotional character of his subjects as well as their graphic/optical attributes.