Robert Baxter
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Robert Baxter has been part of the New York area art community for many years. Educated at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, Robert came back east and worked in New York as an illustrator. He worked for advertising agencies and magazines such as Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal and Reader's Digest. In the early 1970s he was one of six painters who started a studio/school in Westport, Connecticut called Studio II. In the early 1980's. Robert has split much of his time between Connecticut and Provence, France. While in Provence he conducted painting workshops from under the name, Tour de Provence. In the States, Robert is on the faculty of two art schools: Silvermine School of Art Silvermine, Connecticut and Rowayton Art Center Rowayton, Connecticut. His paintings in both oil and watercolor have won major awards in France and New York City. |
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Résumé
Awards
1999 Ogden Pleisner Memorial Prize from the American Watercolor Society1999 Elected Artist of the Year at Fairfield University
The High Winds Medal, 1997 from the American Watercolor Society
1987 Paul Cézanne Medal, 1987 in Aix-en-Provence, France
1987 Sidney and Arthur Eder Prize, from John Slade Ely House
1977 Larry Quackenbush Award
1977 H.W. Ranger Purchase Award
1976 Isaac Maynard Prize
1971 Thomas B. Clark Award
1969 Award of Excellence, New York Society of Illustrators
Publications
"Same Place, Different Paintings", American Artist Magazine, August 1991"Living and Working in France", July 1992
One of six artists in "Six Artists Paint a Portrait", Watson and Guptil, 1974
Collections
US Department of the Interior; Washington, DCThe Charles, Seattle, Washington
Emma Frye Museum, Seattle, Washington
City Hall; Westport, Connecticut
City Hall; Fairfield, Connecticut