Richard Estes Richard Estes painted Drugstore, on page 113 in your textbook, in 1971. We don't know as much about him as we do about Mary Cassatt for a number of reasons. One reason is that he is still alive as of this writing.
Artists tend to receive much more attention after they die.
Another reason is that he is very shy and doesn't like to talk about himself. A third reason is that Mary Cassatt and the people she associated with wrote lots of letters to one another. These letters are extremely valuable to art historians as they attempt to document the life of an artist. Estes, like the majority of his generation, finds using the telephone much easier than writing letters. Estes was born in a town called Kewanee in the state of Illinois in 1936.