Artist's Bio

One of Robert's paintings appeared on the front page of the New York Times on May 13th. 2005. To see it go to Google and type in Roberg New York Times.

Listed In

Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art, Kristin G. Congdon and Tina Bucuvalas, University Press of Mississippi State, Jackson MS, 2005.
The exhibit was at Heritage Gallery Tallahassee. September 29 - January 8, 2006

Coming Home; Self-taught Artists , The Bible The American South, Carol Crown, University Press of Mississippi State, Jackson MS, 2004

Extraordinary Interpretations Gary Monroe, University of Florida Press,, Gainesville FL, 2003

Apocalypse Prophecies and Visions , Amy Namowitz Worthen, Des Moines Art Museum, Des Moines Iowa, 2001
Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collector's Guide, Chuck Rosenak, Abbeville Press, NY 1995

Twentieth Century American Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Art, Sellen & Johanson, Neal Schuman Pub. NY 1993

Recent Exhibits

Coming Home; Self-taught Artists , The Bible The American South The Art Museum of the University of Memphis June 2004The exhibition is expected to travel to the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts and the Gallery at the American Bible Society in 2005.

Smithsonian Treasures to Go Contemporary American Folk Art, Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center Pittsburgh, PA, January 2003

Smithsonian Treasures to Go Contemporary American Folk Art, Fort Wayne Museum of Art Fort Wayne, IN, September 2002

Folk Art From the City of Orlando curated by Frank Holt, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo Florida, May 2002

Point of View: American Folk Art from the William and Ann Oppenheimer Collection,Terrace Gallery, Orlando City Hall, Orlando, FL, April-May , 2002

Smithsonian Treasures to Go Contemporary American Folk Art, High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA, February 2002

Apocalypse Prophecies and Visions, curated by Amy Werthen,Ê Des Moines Art Museum, Des Moines Iowa, November 2001 Exhibits Smithsonian Treasures to Go Contemporary American Folk Art, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami FL, January 2001

Smithsonian Treasures to Go Contemporary American Folk Art, Tacoma Art Museum Tacoma, WA, April 2001

Smithsonian Treasures to Go Contemporary American Folk Art, The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens Jacksonville, FL, October 2001

Point of View: American Folk Art from the William and Ann Oppenhimer Collection, Marsh Art Gallery, George M. Modlin Center for the Arts, University of Richmond, Richmond VA, October , 2001

Saving Grace curated by Gary Monroe, Thomas Center Gainesville FL, December 2001

Smithsonian Treasures to Go Contemporary American Folk Art, Tampa Museum of Art Tampa, FL 2000

Vision and Community: Three Grassroots Artists curated by Rima Jabbour Crealde School of Art Orlando FL 2000

CyberArt Sarasota's First Digital Art Show, Sarasota FL 1996

Contemporary Folk Art a View from the Outside curated by Suzanne Shawe, Boca Raton FL 1995
The Passionate Eye curated by Claudia Sabin, Orlando FL 1994  

Museum Purchases

Mennello Folk Art Museum Orlando Florida 1 painting

The Smithsonian Institute Washington D.C. 2 paintings

Publications

Revelations: Art of the Apocalyspe, Nancy Grubb, Abbeville Press, NY , 1997, five paintings

Unlocking the Mysteries, Samuel Parvin, Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN 1999, two paintings

How Bad was Jezebel? Janet Howe Gaines, Bible Review, Washington D.C. 2000, one painting

The Littlest Star co-written with Chuck Whiting Shine Time Books and Records, Nashville, TN 2003 36 illustrations

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