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Item # FA-087
Robert Watson (American 1923 - 2004)
Oil on canvas 24" x 30" + silver gilt frame, signed and dated
LR "R. Watson 81".
Biography by Vincent Price
“Robert
Watson (1923 - 2004) was born in Martinez, California in a big house
overlooking the bay, and with him was born the subject of all his
paintings - the loneliness of man in the mysterious world. California
provided this subject with a stage of vast space on which to grow and
evolve.
It wasn't until after High School, odd jobs, a sojourn in
the Army and study at Universities of California and Wisconsin that
Watson's lonely man, mysterious world became concrete through reality
of paint on canvas. This occurred between 1943 and 1947 when he went to
New York and later spent eight weeks studying with Frederic Taubes in
Wisconsin. Watson's career, a highly successful one, began with his
first one-man show in 1947 at Gump's and in 1950 in the California
Palace of the Legion of Honor, both in San Francisco. SOLD
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