![]() Robert Rivers’s art has been displayed all over the world. It was a fantastic honor, and I was overwhelmed.” A beautiful museum with beautiful people. Last year jurors at the Orlando Museum of Art awarded Rivers The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art and $20,000 in prize money for The Promised Land to which Rivers responded: “Winning the Florida Prize was one of the best nights of my life. “It is at once overwhelmingly terrifying and astonishingly beautiful,” says Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon, associate curator at the Orlando Museum of Art. Rendered in graphite, red pencil, oil paint, and washes made of tea and rust-colored acrylics, each panel of The Promised Land is more than 5 feet wide and nearly 3 feet tall and is infused with mythological references. In the words of one his former MFA professors, Robert Croker, “ is both a tribute to Thomas and a rumination of death in general, by violence in particular the fragility and persistence of life the uncertainty of an afterlife the innocence of youth and the intensity with which our lives are bound to one another, regardless of the circumstance.” While the former was inspired by his mother’s hospitalizations, the latter is a tribute to his nephew Thomas who never came home from the war in Afghanistan. The Hospital Prints, Goyaesque black-and-while images, predate The Promised Land, Rivers’s magnum opus. “It was the first time I’d ever seen a Goya painting, other than reproduced in books.” Considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18 th and early 19 th centuries, Goya is one of Rivers’s greatest influences to this day. “That’s the first time I’d ever set foot in a real museum,” Rivers says. During a particularly defining moment of his early career, he recalls stepping inside the Chicago Art Institute and seeing Francisco Goya’s work in person. While he excelled at the sport, it was coaching and art that inspired him.Įarning a BFA from Auburn, Rivers held jobs in the field of graphic design and spent part of his summers working with animals. Born in Guntersville, Alabama, Rivers was encouraged to play football by his family. “I never thought I’d be an artist, but I drew all the time…” says Robert Rivers, professor of studio art at UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design. Peggy and Harold Samuels, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West, p.Portrait of Robert Rivers by Rafael Tongol Paul, Minnesota the National Gallery in Washington DC and the Montclair Museum of Art in New Jersey. Other collections representing the artist are ar Yale University, Trinity College at Cambridge University in England the Historical Society of St. ![]() Work by him is at the University of Texas and the Texas state capitol in Austin where the portrait of Sam Houston is in the Gallery of the Senate. The artist’s professional papers are archived at the Grolier Club in New York City. He was also a member of the Peconic Art Colony, spending summers in the Indian Neck area of Peconic, Long Island. Rouland and his wife had a summer home at Marblehead, Massachusetts where he did painting as well as at Cape Ann and Rockport. He was also active in the Artist’s Professional League and the Lotos Club on behalf of exhibiting work by emerging artists. In New York City, Rouland was a member of the Allied Artists of America, which he served as president from 1925 to 1928. Denis, and as a result of that friendship, Orlando Rouland did a painting of St. She was a patroness of the dancer Ruth St. Rouland’s wife was Minnie Dwight, a New York socialite who worked hard to promote her husband’s career. He studied in Europe at the Julian Academy in Paris with Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul Laurens and also in London, Germany with Max Thedy, and in New York City. Born in Illinois, Orlando Rouland became a painter of rural landscapes, scenes of New York City, and portraits of notable personages including Thomas Edison, Dame Nellie Melba, Sam Houston, John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt.
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