Robert Bauer (artist)

Last updated

Robert Bauer (born 1942) is an American painter who creates pictures of people, landscapes, backyards, and gardens. Bauer's paintings of backyards and gardens gained him much recognition and his art has been shown in multiple exhibitions.

Contents

Personal life

Bauer was born in Iowa in 1942 and spent his childhood on a farm near Williamsburg, Iowa, United States. [1] [2]

Career

Robert Bauer’s realist portraits are most often of family and friends and are noted for their sensitive and introspective portrayals. There is a palpable sense of life in each of these intimate works, stemming from Bauer’s lengthy painting process and keen attention to subtle detail. These contemplative and pensive faces are drawn directly from the subject as well as from pencil studies and photographs. Themes of chance, choice and control are deeply a part of the artist’s work.

Robert Bauer was born in Iowa in 1942, and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Work shown in the Academy’s “1967 Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture” led to his inclusion in the show “Four Young Realists” at Kenmore Galleries, Philadelphia. In 1969, Bauer’s work was featured in the “33rd Mid-Year Annual” at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH. Following a number of solo and group exhibitions, his work attracted the attention of New York dealer Allan Stone, who collected and exhibited his paintings in the early 1980s.

Mr. Bauer’s work was selected for inclusion in the Janss Collection of American Realism, and was exhibited in that collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1985, a show which later travelled to other museums throughout the United States. He moved to Boston in 1985 and began to exhibit there at the Thomas Segal Gallery the following year. His work was first shown by Forum Gallery, New York in a group landscape exhibition in 1990.

Since joining Forum Gallery, Robert Bauer’s work has been exhibited in the Pratt Institute’s Manhattan Gallery, the “1996-1997 Best of the Season” exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, CT, and the “Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture” at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, in 1997. Portrait paintings were shown in “New Old Masters,” Naples Art Museum, Naples, FL, in 2005 and in the inaugural portrait exhibition at the new National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC in 2006. In 2009 his work was included in “Enchantment: The Sixth International Distinguished Artist Symposium & Exhibition” at the Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT.

Robert Bauer is the recipient of three Massachusetts Cultural Council grants, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants in Painting (1998 and 2014), and he was a finalist in the 2006 Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.  Bauer’s work is represented in public and private collections throughout the United States, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR; and the Janss Collection of American Realism, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID. [3]

Selected Public Collections:  

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR 

Augustana College, Rock Island, IL

Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University Center for the Arts, Valparaiso, IN 

Central University of Iowa, Pella, IA

CitiBank, Mexico City

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

General Electric, Fairfield, CT

Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

Iowa Arts Council, Des Moines, IA

Janss Collection of American Realism, Boise Art Museum, ID

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Pillsbury Company, Minneapolis, MN

St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA

University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, MD

West Virginia Arts and Humanities Council, Charleston, WV  

Related Research Articles

Bruce Walters, is an artist who has exhibited digital artworks, graphite drawings and paintings primarily in the American Midwest. Walters received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and BA from the University of Iowa. He retired from Western Illinois University in 2021 and was conferred with the title Professor Emeritus.

Lawrence "Larry" Zox was an American painter and printmaker who is classified as an Abstract expressionist, Color Field painter and a Lyrical Abstractionist, although he did not readily use those categories for his work.

Idelle Lois Weber was an American artist most closely aligned with the Pop art and Photorealist movements.

John Button was an American artist, well known for his city-scapes. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley then moved to New York City in the early 1950s. He became friends with Fairfield Porter and Frank O'Hara and assumed his part in the New York School of Painters and Poets.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Templeton (artist)</span> American artist (1929–1991)

Robert Templeton was an American artist. His work includes the civil rights collection "Lest we forget...Images of the Black Civil Rights Movement", highlighting seminal figures from the movement. Templeton painted the portrait of former President Jimmy Carter that is displayed in the Hall of presidents of the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edward Dugmore</span> American painter

Edward Dugmore was an abstract expressionist painter with close ties to both the San Francisco and New York art worlds in the post-war era following World War II. Since 1950 he had more than two dozen solo exhibitions of his paintings in galleries across the United States. His paintings have been seen in hundreds of group exhibitions over the years.

Maxwell Hendler is an American painter. In 1975, he became the first contemporary artist to have pictures in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Jack Roth (1927–2004), also known as "Rodney Jack Roth", was an American painter who developed a style as an Abstract Expressionist, and as a Color Field painter.

Kay Kurt is an American new realist painter known for her large-scale candy paintings.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stephen Greene (artist)</span> American painter

Stephen Greene was an American artist known for his abstract paintings and in the 1940s his social realist figure paintings.

Dennis Kardon is an American painter based in Brooklyn, New York. The New York Times' Ken Johnson has described Dennis Kardon's paintings as "generously painterly, voluptuously creepy narrative pictures of familial conflict, sexual angst and infantile yearning." Kardon's work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Louise Noun</span> American activist

Louise Frankel Rosenfield Noun was a feminist, social activist, philanthropist, and civil libertarian.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Boise Art Museum</span> Art museum in Boise, Idaho

The Boise Art Museum (BAM) is located at 670 Julia Davis Drive in Boise, Idaho, and is part of a series of public museums and cultural attractions in Julia Davis Park. It is the permanent home of a growing collection of contemporary realism, modern and contemporary ceramics, as well as the largest public collection of works by acclaimed Idaho outsider artist and bookmaker James Charles Castle. The museum also features major traveling exhibitions and installations throughout the year.

Sidney Gross was an American artist and painter. His early style was influenced by the Social realism. He also drew on the Surrealist Movement that was just beginning the year he was born. By the time he was twenty, he was painting distinctively urban surrealism, while producing critically admired portraits, something he continued to do during his lifetime.

James Lechay was an American painter who described himself an "abstract impressionist".

Sara Sosnowy is an American contemporary artist. Her paintings, drawings and prints have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others.

Eve Aschheim is an American draftsperson and painter.

Signe Margaret Stuart is an American artist best known for her abstract paintings and works on paper that are informed by Minimalism, quantum physics and the study of consciousness.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sally Michel Avery</span> American modernist artist and illustrator (1902-2003)

Sally Michel Avery was an artist and illustrator who created modernist paintings of abstracted figures, landscapes, and genre scenes capturing personal moments of every day life. She was the co-creator of the "Avery style", wife and collaborator of artist Milton Avery, and mother of artist March Avery. Throughout their lives, Michel and Avery shared their studio space together, painting side by side, critiquing each other's work, and developing a shared style which includes the use of abstracted subjects, expressionistic color fields, and harmonious but unusual colors juxtapositions. Michel's work is the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Israel Museum, among others.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sue Hettmansperger</span> American visual artist

Sue Hettmansperger is an American artist known for paintings and collages that work across the spectrum of modernist abstraction and representational imagery. Her work explores the interconnectedness of human, botanical and inorganic systems, scientific concepts and ecological concerns. She has been awarded Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and her work belongs to the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago and Des Moines Art Center, among other institutions. She lives and works in Iowa City and is Professor Emerita of Art at the University of Iowa.

References

  1. Stegmaier, Mark (Fall 1986). "Profile: Robert Bauer". The Iowan. Des Moines, Iowa: Mid-America Publishing Corporation. pp. 36–38.
  2. "Robert Bauer". Forum Gallery. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
  3. "Robert Bauer - Artists - Forum Gallery". www.forumgallery.com. Retrieved September 30, 2023.