Robert Raymond Anderson, Summer Queen, Circa 1980

Description

This artwork titled "Summer Queen" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on wove paper by American artist Robert Raymond Anderson, … more This artwork titled "Summer Queen" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on wove paper by American artist Robert Raymond Anderson, 1945-2010. It is hand signed and numbered 8/250 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 16.65 x 20.85 inches, sheet size is 20 x 28 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.

About the artist:

Anderson's work has, in contrast to his refined photo-realist technique, a definite, causal blue-jeaned feeling of the 60's and 70's. Anderson also successfully combines imagery from different eras of American history into modern muses and fantasies. His work has also been called "Victoriana Revisited" which is a description of the subject matter and overall atmosphere.

Anderson uses a soft focus airbrush technique. He uses shadows to show that his foreground figures are not really part of their settings. His combination of soft-edged and hard-edged techniques provoke the viewer to wonder if all the elements are truly a part of the same scene. Anderson's paintings are executed in a surrealist vein. Although they celebrate people and faces in a realist way, the atmosphere they evoke reaches into moods.


The work of Robert Anderson is held in many collections nationwide including,

The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania

Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences. Morristown, New Jersey

State University of New York, Brockport, New York

Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, New Jersey

The County of Morris, New Jersey

Broadway Bank and Trust Company, Patterson, New Jersey

American Telephone and Telegraph, Basking Ridge, New Jersey less