California, American and International Fine Art

Frame, Robert (1924-1999)

Girl by the Window

Size

55"x58"

Medium

Oil

Description

Pasadena artist, Robert Frame, has long been associated with the Bay Area Figurative movement. Robert Frame was an important Santa Barbara, California, artist well known for his colorful oils of coastal landscapes, figurative subjects, and still lifes. He attended Pasadena City College and Pomona College, Claremont, in the mid-1940’s. Frame received several awards in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. Among these were awards from the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pasadena Art Museum in California.

In the 1950s, he had several sold out shows at renowned Los Angeles galleries, Ester Robles Gallery and Ankrum Gallery. During this time in the Los Angeles gallery scene, Robert Frame was among exhibiting artists such as Sam Francis, Richard Diebenkorn, James Strombotne, and Ed Keinholz.

Frame taught art at Santa Barbara City College from 1966 until 1986. During the period 1948 to 1965, Frame won 22 prizes in painting in national exhibitions, including a 1957 Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Painting and was represented in numerous National Exhibitions of American Painting and featured in several art publications. As a well-respected professor in fine arts, he was influential in institutions such as Otis Art Institute, University of Southern California, Scripps College, and Santa Barbara City College.

He painted in the Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figural Styles and was closely associated with the premier artists of those movements, including his friend, Richard Diebenkorn.

Robert studied with Millard Sheets and Henry Lee McFee, and exhibited in public exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Desert Art Museum in Palm Springs, California, Phoenix Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the DeYoung Museum, and many others.

Robert Frame’s works were shown at several of the leading museums on the west coast, including the San Francisco Museum of Art, DeYoung Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art and many others.

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