'Seascape' by Robert Landry, Circa 1965; San Diego Watercolor Society, Dallas

Description

Watercolor coastal seascape of a rocky inlet with a view beyond to sailboats on the ocean.

Signed lower right, "Robert … more Watercolor coastal seascape of a rocky inlet with a view beyond to sailboats on the ocean.

Signed lower right, "Robert Landry" and painted circa 1965.

Robert Landry attended high school on the East Coast then went into the service during World War II. After the war, he studied art in Washington, D.C. and Minneapolis on the G.I. Bill. This led to work as a commercial illustrator for the United States Air Force Graphic Arts Division at the Pentagon, and as an art director for the Federal Aviation Agency and Convair Astronautics.

After the late 1940s, he began a serious painting career and started exhibiting fine art watercolors. His paintings often depicted regional subjects with buildings, boats or coastline structures. Creating a "mood" was important to him and gives his works a narrative quality. His watercolors were primarily sold through art galleries in San Diego and Dallas. Landry also became a well-known instructor at watercolor workshops near his home in San Diego and in traveling workshops held in Oregon, Arizona and Hawaii

Studied: Abbott Art School, Art Instruction, Inc.
Member: San Diego Watercolor Society, Watercolor West. less