Robert McCurdy Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1952 -

Robert Mccurdy is an American painter and photographer born in Pennsylvania in 1952. He earned his BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland and worked on an Arts Fellowship at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. His work has been shown in over 30 galleries since 1976.

I greatly admire his realistic style and creative use of color. His portraits strongly resemble photographs and have a striking use of thick layer work that creates practically invisible strokes. At the exhibit I leaned in dangerously close trying to figure out how he managed to master the two very different textures of the sweater’s knit fabric and Morrison’s skin while seamlessly blending the piece into one spectacularly composed whole.