Robert Green
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Robert Green
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Born: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1909
Died: Lawrence, Kansas, 2007
Robert Berkeley Green, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania painted for most of his life. He earned a bachelor’s degree in painting from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. Green received the prestigious Prix de Rome award, which included a two-year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. While there he won the AAR Alumni Medal for Collaboration and stayed a third year. He began teaching art after World War II, during which he was with the Army Visual Aids Unit at Fort Benning, Georgia. His first positions were in public schools, before coming to the University of Kansas in 1946. He continued to teach at K.U. until he retired as Professor Emeritus of Art in 1979.
Besides his lifelong commitment to inspiring and educating, Green pursued his own growth as an artist, painting almost daily for most of his life. While known primarily for his watercolors, he had technical mastery of a variety of media. He explored of a wide range of styles and subject, from cubism to still-life to plain-air landscape painting. His later work was a unique blend of highly detailed and accurate botanical images with the fieldless and meditative aspects of Zen painting. Green’s work is in numerous private and public collections. His work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Through his eighties, he continued to paint, and work on a series that incorporated many of the images he used throughout fifty-year career.
Died: Lawrence, Kansas, 2007
Robert Berkeley Green, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania painted for most of his life. He earned a bachelor’s degree in painting from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. Green received the prestigious Prix de Rome award, which included a two-year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. While there he won the AAR Alumni Medal for Collaboration and stayed a third year. He began teaching art after World War II, during which he was with the Army Visual Aids Unit at Fort Benning, Georgia. His first positions were in public schools, before coming to the University of Kansas in 1946. He continued to teach at K.U. until he retired as Professor Emeritus of Art in 1979.
Besides his lifelong commitment to inspiring and educating, Green pursued his own growth as an artist, painting almost daily for most of his life. While known primarily for his watercolors, he had technical mastery of a variety of media. He explored of a wide range of styles and subject, from cubism to still-life to plain-air landscape painting. His later work was a unique blend of highly detailed and accurate botanical images with the fieldless and meditative aspects of Zen painting. Green’s work is in numerous private and public collections. His work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Through his eighties, he continued to paint, and work on a series that incorporated many of the images he used throughout fifty-year career.