Close, (Charles Thomas) Chuck (1940– )

US painter. A photo-realist painter of large portraits, as in Phil (1969), he was based in New York City from 1967, and taught at several universities. Paralysed from the neck down since 1988, he taught himself how to paint using mechanical and electronic aids.

He was born in Monroe, Washington. He studied at the University of Washington School of Art, Seattle 1960–62, Yale University 1962–64, and in Vienna, Austria 1964–65.