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   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.






Robert McCauley
Rarefied Atmosphere
2008
Oil on Canvas
40.5" x 28.5"
$5,000.






Robert McCauley
Relative Speed
2008
Oil on Canvas
36.5" x 28.5"
SOLD






Robert McCauley
NW Systems II
2008
Oil on Canvas
26" x 22"
SOLD






Robert McCauley
Trained to Only See Abstraction
2008
Oil on Canvas
26" x 22"
$3,000.






Robert McCauley
Elegant Solution III
2008
Oil on Canvas
26" x 22"
$3,000.





Robert McCauley
NW Structure
2008
Oil on Canvas
30" x 24"
SOLD





Robert McCauley
NW Systems
2008
Oil on Canvas
36" x 30"
$4,500.



 
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