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Chuck Close

Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter, artist and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Close often paints abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally. Close also creates photo portraits using a very large format camera. Even though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint. Read more from Wikipedia →

Works by this artist in other museums: the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York.