About the Artist

Robert attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA where he was accepted with advanced standing and awarded a scholarship. A selected list of workshops include Ray Vinella, John Asaro, Wolf Kahn, Wayne Thiebaud, Matt Smith, Jove Wang, Phil Starke, Randall Sexton, Ray Roberts, Bill Anton and Ned Jacob. 

Robert has received numerous awards, and has been included in several books and publications. His work is in the permanent collection of The Grand Canyon Association and he is collected worldwide.  In addition he has been an art teacher for a number of years. In May 2021, Robert will be honored to have his third extensive museum show at the Maynard Dixon Legacy Museum. In 2021 Robert was awarded Signature Membership in the Plein Air Painters of America organization.

 

Recent shows include:

-May 2026, The Annual Phippen Museum Show, Prescott, AZ.

-May 2026, Heart of America, PAPA Signature Member Show at the Thunderbird Foundation, Mt Carmel, UT.

-Oct 2025, Second Place Award, Sedona Pelein Air Festival.

-Aug 2025, Honorable Mentin, Landscape Category, California Art Club Gold Medal Show.

-Aug 2024, California Art Club Gold Medal Show, Hilbert Museum, Orange, CA.

-Oct 2023, Oil Painters of America Western Regional, Brushworks Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT.

-Oct 2023, Plein Air Painters of America show at the Couse-Sharp Historic Site, Taos, NM.

-July 2023, Bonita Art Museum, Bonita, CA "The collections of Mehl Lawson and Mark Fehlman.

-Oct 2022, Robert will have a painting in the Booth Museum, Georgia (with the Plein Air Painters of America.)

-Phippen Museum Miniature Masterpiece Art Show Show and Sale 2022.

-First Place in the Oil Painters of America Fall 2021 Online Showcase.

-Phippen Museum -"High Desert Masters" Show Oct. 3 2020 - March 7 2021

-May 14 2022 Robert will have his fourth one man show at the Maynard Dixon Legacy Museum in Mt. Carmel, UT.

 -Finalist - Bold Brush Online Show April 2020

-OPA Fall 2019 Online Showcase, 2nd Place

-Best in Show (Plein Air) Grand Canyon Celebration of Art 2019  Juror: Jean Stern director of the Irvine Museum.

- Best Landscape 2018 Plein Air Salon  August/September

 

-  TOP 50 and TOP 100 in the 2007 Paint America National Park show

-  Oil Painters of America (OPA) Western Regional show in Santa Barbara, California

-  OPA National Show in Scottsdale, Arizona

-  First Place BOLD BRUSH AWARD, FASO Bold Brush Painting Competition

-  Invited Guest Artist to the Maynard Dixon Country Show (2015)

-  California Art Club Gold Medal Show (2017 and 2018)

-  Grand Canyon Celebration of Art (2016 thru 2022)

-  Sedona Plein Air Festival of Art (2017)

-  Borrego Art Institute Invitational Show (2018)

-  Phippen Fine Art Show at the Courthouse Square in Prescott, Arizona (2014 thru 2022)

- OPA Regional Show, Boulder CO. (2018)

 

 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026 Heart of America PAPA Signature Member Show at the Thunderbird Foundation, Mt Carmel, UT.

2025 California Art Club Gold Medal Show, Honorable Mention, Landscape Category.

2023 Oil Painters of America Western Regional Exhibition, Salt Lake City, UT.

2023 Plein Air Painters of America, Couse-Sharp Historic Site, Taos, NM.

2019-2022  One man shows at the Maynard Dixon Legacy Museum in Mt. Carmel, UT.

2021 Phippen Museum - "High Desert Masters."

2019 OPA National Show, St. George, UT

2018 OPA Regional Show, Boulder, CO

2018 Maynard Dixon Country, Mt Carmel, UT

2018 California Art Club's 107th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition

2018 12th Annual Borrego Art Institute Invitational

2017 Sedona Plein Air Festival of Art.

2017  Grand Canyon Celebration of Art

2017  California Art Club Gold Medal Show

2016  Dixon Camp Out - Bingham Gallery, Mt Carmel, UT.

2016  California Art Club Artist Member.

2016  Grand Canyon Celebration of Art invitee.

2015  First Place, BOLDBRUSH AWARD in the FASO Boldbrush painting competition.

2015  GUEST ARTIST, Maynard Dixon Country, Bingham Gallery, Mt Carmel, UT.

2015  Dixon Campout show, Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts. Mt Carmel, UT.

2015  One Man Show, Mountain Artists Gallery, Prescott, AZ.

2014 - 2023  Phippen Museum annual show, Prescott, Arizona. (Award winner)

2011  One Man Show at University of Arizona.

2010  Oil Painters of America National Show, Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ.

2009  Two paintings included in the permanent collection of the Grand Canyon Association.

2009  Best of Show in Members Juried Show, Tubac Center for the Arts.

2007  Oil Painters of America Western Regional show, Waterhouse Gallery in Santa Barbara, California.

2007  TOP 50 and TOP 100 in the Paint America National Parks show.

2007  Empire Ranch 100 Show, Tucson, AZ

2006  First Place Award, Tucson Plein Air Painters Artist Member Show, Juror, Phil Starke

2006  First Place Award, Tucson Plein Air Painters Association, Juror, Ray Roberts

2003  AZ Desert Museum Plein Air Show, Tucson, AZ

2003-2007 Awards of excellence, Tubac Center for the Arts

2000  Mountain Oyster Club Show, Tucson, AZ

1999  Award winner, Tucson Plein Air Paint-Out, Venture Fine Arts

1996  Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ

1995  El Presidio Gallery, Tucson, AZ

1995  Davis Dominguez Gallery-Invitational Show, Tucson, AZ

1995-2002  Annual shows at the Pratt Gallery, San Diego, CA

1994  $2000.00 prize at the Lana International Art Competition, San Francisco, CA, Wayne Thiebaud, Juror.

1991  One-man show, Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1988-1993  Annual one-man shows, Tarbox Gallery, San Diego CA

1985 Showed at O Brien’s Art Emporium, Scottsdale, AZ

1981-1987  One Man shows, Knowles Gallery, La Jolla, CA

1974  California-Hawaii Regional art competition, San Diego Museum of Fine Art.

1973  Award winner, San Diego Art Institute.

 

 BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

2025 Feature Article, Art of the West, July/August issue. 

2018 Western Art and Architecture, May issue.

2018  Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, May issue.

2013  Lecture by Mark Fehlman indicated Robert as one of ten influential landscape artists of San Diego.

2008  Southwest Art Magazine, April issue.

2007  Painting Impressionist Color - Any Style, Any Medium by Lois Griffel.

2007  Land of Sunlight – Contemporary Paintings of San Diego County by James Lightner.

2002  Southwest Art Magazine, February issue.

2002  Southwest Art Magazine, January issue.

2002  Southwest Art Magazine, January issue.

1999  San Diego Reader, August 26 issue.

1995  Southwest Art Magazine, April issue.

1994  The American Artist’s Magazine, October issue.

1991  Interview in the San Diego Union Newspaper, May.

1990  Cover article, San Diego Metropolitan Magazine, March issue.

1989  Television interview with Laura Buxton, “Inside San Diego”.

1989  Cover Article, The Artist’s Magazine, September issue.

 

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Currently represented by The Thunderbird Foundation / Maynard Dixon Legacy Museum, Mt. Carmel, Utah.

The Legacy Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ and Santa Fe, NM.

The Shaun Horne Gallery, Crested Butte, CO.