| Robert
(Bob) Stanley, American (1932 - 1997)
Robert (Bob) Stanley was a painter whose early work was figurative
painting about contemporary American life. In the 1960s and early
1970s, he based his paintings on photographs, which he manipulated
from black and white ot larger than life colored shapes. Stanley
was born in Yonkers, New York and studied at the Arts Students
League, the Brooklyn Museum Art School on a Max Beckman Scholarship,
Columbia University and Oglethorpe University.
His first one-man exhibition was in 1963, and exhibition venues
included the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Art Institute
of Chicago. His preferred medium was acrylic and sources for
his work subjects included coloring book figures, puzzles,
graphs and scientific diagrams.
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