Urban Sights: Urban History and Visual CultureMain MenuIntroductionConflicting Visions of Renewal in Pittsburgh's Hill District, 1950-1968 by Laura GrantmyreSan Francisco Views: Robert Bechtle and the Reformulation of Urban Vision by Bridget GilmanVisualizing Iraq: Oil, Cinema, and the Modern City by Mona DamlujiFilmic Witness to the 1964 Kitty Genovese Murder by Carrie RentschlerBuses from Nowhere: Television and Anti-busing Activism in 1970s Urban America by Matt DelmontMona Damluji89c6177132ce9094bd19f4e5159eb300a76ef0dfMatthew F. Delmont5676b5682f4c73618365582367c04a35162484d5Bridget Gilman032da9b6b9003c284100547a1d63b1ed9aca49e2Laura Grantmyre8add17c1c26ed9de6b804f44312bd03052f5735eCarrie Rentschlere7ded604f66cae2062fa490f51234edecd44a076
12013-06-25T17:34:40-07:00Interactive timeline: Robert Bechtle artwork locations26plain2016-03-08T15:43:39-08:00This graphic catalogues many of the locations Bechtle has depicted, including numerous images of the San Francisco Bay Area and a number of others scattered across the state. The locations generally follow the artist's own place of residence (the East Bay early on his career, San Francisco from the 1980s onward), but also maintain geographic diversity – the timeline cannot be distilled into a simple progression from suburb to city. Rather, his movements evidence a continued interest in a variety of residential locales with similar architectural patterns or spatial configurations. The timeline can be viewed in two ways. Pressing the 'play' button charts the locations chronologically. (The blue location circles increase in diameter as the number of paintings depicting that location increases; tallies for each location per year are displayed in the box on the upper right.) The slider bar at the bottom of the page can also be adjusted to show the artwork locations within a specific date range.
The majority of Bechtle's works picture the Bay Area; additional locations in greater northern California and southern California can be viewed by using the hand cursor to adjust the map view.