After a long and distinguished career as professor and Chairman of the Art
Department at Rockford College in Illinois, Robert McCauley recently retired
to his beloved Skagit Valley in Washington State. To celebrate his return,
the Linda Hodges Gallery is proud to announce a one person exhibition of new
paintings by this celebrated artist.
Noted for his 19th century tableaus featuring romanticized animal portraits,
McCauley's new paintings set off on a different direction. In his new work,
McCauley searches for what he calls the "elegant solution," that is; the
best method to properly represent the animals he loves to paint, while
exploring the relationship between (the animal) shapes and colors and
abstract graphics and patterns. For McCauley, they are one in the same.
States McCauley "The patterns and graphics are as natural to the animals as
the romantic backgrounds of Bierstadt and Church. For me...the circles and
lines are the distillation of the American Luminist grounds."
Robert McCauley was born and raised in Mt. Vernon, Washington. He graduated
from Western Washington University in 1969, and received his Master of Fine
Arts Degree from Washington State University in 1972. He is currently
professor and Chairman of the Art Department at Rockford College in
Illinois. McCauley has earned many prestigious awards including a
Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1982 and the
Illinois Arts Council in 1999. He was featured in a show entitled "Natural
Acts," at the Palo Alto Arts Center, Palo Alto, California in 2005 and is
scheduled for a major one person show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in
Salem in 2009.
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