Charles Bell
American, 1935 - 1995
Charles Bell was one of the founding members of the Photorealism movement in the late 1960s and 70s. He is best known for hyper-realistic paintings of gumball and pinball machines, as well as metal toys. His work can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim in New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan, and many others.
The works displayed are two serigraphs: Hot Pursuit, 1990 and Little Italy, 1981. (Serigraphs are also known as silkscreen prints. As prints where each color is printed on one color at a time, they are not as "photorealistic" as Bell's paintings would be.)