Robert Andrew Parker

(http://www.themorrisongallery.com/parker_bio.htm 7-16-08)Born: 1927, Norfolk, Virginia, Robert Andrew Parker attended the school of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1948 until 1952 and worked during the following months at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 in New York. Since his first solo show in 1954, Parker has exhibited extensively, and his credits include set designs for opera and film as well as book illustrations. In his watercolors Parker combines areas of pure color with design conceived in terms of silhouette and shape. He takes his subject matter mostly from the natural world—dogs, trees, mountains, people, birds—and condenses and simplifies imagery with a swift, expressionistic technique. During his career Parker has worked in such distinctive locales as Arles and Saint-Remy in France and the Himalayas, where a 1981 walking tour provided the subjects for a series on landscapes and fellow trekkers.SOURCE: Virginia M. Mecklenburg. Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1987).(http://www.morganlehmangallery.com/dynamic/artist_bio.asp?ArtistID=16 7-16-08)Education1948-52 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois1952 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine1952-53 Atelier 17, New YorkSelected Solo Exhibitions2004 Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, Connecticut2004 Davis & Langdale, New York, New York1999 Davis & Langdale, New York, New York1997 Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota1996 Susan Conway Gallery, Washington, D.C.1995 Words and Pictures, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York,1993 Four Decades of Etchings, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York1992 Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania1991 25 Year Retrospective, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York1989 Jacob's Pillow, Lennox, Massachusetts1987-88 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York1987 Manhattan Graphics Benefit Show, AAA Gallery, New York1986 University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut1985 Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico1985 Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri1985 Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut1984 Arkansas Fine Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas1984 Gallerit, Stockholm, Sweden (etchings)1982 Brooklyn Museum, New York1981 Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University (etchings)1978 Bethel Gallery, Connecticut1976 Kilkenny Arts Week, Kilkenny College, Kilkenny, Ireland1973 Achim Moeller, London, England1971 University of Connecticut, Storrs1969 Lehigh University, Pennsylvania1969 J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, Michigan1968 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, Illinois1966-85 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York1966 J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, Michigan1963 Obelisk Gallery, Washington, D.C.1961 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles1960-65 World House Galleries, New York1954-59 Roko Gallery, New YorkSelected Group Exhibitions2004 Westport Arts Center, Westport, Connecticut1987-91 Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York1986 State of the Artists, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut1986 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota1987 Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania1987 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence1987 Public and Private: American Prints Today, Brooklyn Museum, New York1985 Prints en Suite, Pratt Institute, New York1985 Prints en Suite, Katonah Gallery, New York1985 17 Etchings By 17 Artists, Sylvan Cole Gallery, New York1983 20th Century Drawings, Arkansas Fine Arts Center, Little Rock1983 Prints of New York City, AAA Galleries, New York1982 Collector's Show, Arkansas Fine Art Center, Little Rock1979 Annual Ward Ranger Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York1979 From The Imagination, Green Mountain Gallery, New York1977 Off The Beaten Path, State University of New York at Potsdam1977 52nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York1977 Contemporary Pastels and Watercolors, Indiana University Museum, Bloomington1976 Skowhegan Retrospective, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston1974 20th Century American Art, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase1974 19th and 20th Century Masterpieces, Kennedy Galleries, New York1972 Humor, Satire and Irony, New School for Social Research, New York1969 National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York1967 Sixteenth National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York1968 Painting and Sculpture Today, Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana1966 Twenty Drawings and New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York1964 American Drawings, Twentieth Century, Gallery of Modern Art, New York1964 Sixty-Five Self Portraits, School of Visual Arts, New York1964 Portraits From The American Art World, New School For Social Research, New York1962 22nd International Watercolor Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York1963 Forty Americans Under Forty, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York1963 National Academy of Arts and Letters, New York1963 The Figure Then and Now, School of Visual Arts, New York1959 National Academy of Arts and Letters, New York1959 Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York1957 FiveMasters of Line (Alexander Calder, Jose Luis Cuevas, Stuart David,1957 Morris Graves, Robert Andrew Parker), La Napoule Art Foundation, France1957 Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York1957 Young America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York1956 Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York1956 New Talent, Circulating Exhibit based on "New Talent" issue of Art In America,1955 International Biennial Watercolor Exhibit, Brooklyn Museum, New York1954-56 New Artists: A Survey of Recent Work, traveling Exhibit sponsored by the MOMA, NY 1953 Young American Printmakers, Museum of Modern Art, New York1952 Watercolors, Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkAwards1987 Ranger Fund Purchase Prize, National Academy of Design, New York1979 CT Commission on the Arts Grant to execute a suite of etchings on Connecticut River towns1969-70 Guggenheim Fellow1967 Fellowship, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles1961 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Grant, Institute of Arts and Letters, New YorkSelected Public and Corporate CollectionsMuseum of Modern Art, New YorkMetropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkWhitney Museum of Art, New YorkMorgan Library, New YorkNew York Public LibraryBrooklyn Museum, New YorkGrunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, California, University of California at Los AngelesLos Angeles County MuseumArkansas Fine Arts Center, Little RockDublin Museum, IrelandTennessee Fine Arts CenterMuseum of Fine Arts, Raleigh, North CarolinaNewark Museum, New JerseyUniversity Museum, Ann Arbor, MichiganSmith College, Northampton, MassachusettsIndianapolis Museum of Art, IndianaUniversity of MassachusettsNational Academy of Design, New YorkAmerada Hess CorporationSara Roby FoundationMontclair Museum, New JerseySt. Paul Gallery and School of ArtNew Britain Museum, ConnecticutTeaching1984 Gerit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands1985 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence1980-92 Parsons School of Design, New York1975 Syracuse University, New York1960-70 School of Visual Arts, New York1964 Skowhegan School of Painting and SculpturePublic Lectures1990 Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York1989, 91 National Academy of Design1986 George Washington University, St. Louis1985-93 University of Kansas1984-86 School of Visual Arts, New York1981 New School For Social Research, New YorkTheater and Film1983 Costumes and set for the dance company, Crow's Next, Fete d'Avignon, France1981 Backdrop and costumes for Crow's Nest1980 Backdrop for Crow's Nest1970 Illustrated poetry of Keith Douglas for the film, How To Kill1966 Illustrated poetry of Wilfred Owen for the film, The Days of Wilfred Owen, narrated by Richard Burton1962 Sets for the opera by William Schuman, Museum of Modern Art, New York1955 Drawings and paintings for the MGM film, Lust for LifeRobert Andrew Parker has illustrated more than seventy books for children, including "The Hatmaker's Sighn" (Orchard Books) and, most recently, "Sleds On Boston Common" (Simon & Schuster). His "Pop Corn and Ma Goodness" was a Caldecott Honor Book. Mr. Parker lives in West Cornwall, Connecticut.Source: www.houghtonmifflinbooks.comRobert Parker is known for his fantastic colored etchings often seen in The New Yorker magazine most times depicting a new musical on Broadway. His subject matter is vast ranging from War topics mainly WW2 in which he was in active duty to great portraits of dogs and birds.Source: www.theoutsidersart.comStudied: Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Skowhegan, ME Studied: School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL Award: Ranger Fund Purchase Prize Award: Guggenheim Fellowship Award: Rosenthal Foundation Grant Source: www.artnet.com full vitae on file courtesy Southport Harbor Gallery, CT.