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Robert Watson (American 1923 - 2004)

Oil on canvas  22" x 38" +  frame, signed and dated LR "R. Watson 64".

Biography by Vincent Price
“Robert Watson (1923 - 2004) was born in Martinez, California in a big house overlooking the bay, and with him was born the subject of all his paintings - the loneliness of man in the mysterious world. California provided this subject with a stage of vast space on which to grow and evolve.
It wasn't until after High School, odd jobs, a sojourn in the Army and study at Universities of California and Wisconsin that Watson's lonely man, mysterious world became concrete through reality of paint on canvas. This occurred between 1943 and 1947 when he went to New York and later spent eight weeks studying with Frederic Taubes in Wisconsin. Watson's career, a highly successful one, began with his first one-man show in 1947 at Gump's and in 1950 in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, both in San Francisco.

Robert Watson (American 1923 - 2004)
Oil on canvas
Robert Watson (American 1923 - 2004)
Oil on canvas

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