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Robert Remsen Vickrey
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Vickrey passes away at his home in Naples, FL. He was 84.
Photo credit: Stephen Wilkes
Bob at Boat Basin in 1930.
Bob at Lazy Me Ranch, 1933
US Navy Seaman, Second Class, 1946. Vickrey enlisted in the Navy’s V-12 officers’ training program, which sent him to study at Wesleyan University and Yale.
Vickrey graduated in 1947 with a B.A. from Yale University. He spent a year in New York studying with Reginald Marsh and Kenneth Hays Miller at the Art Students League. In 1950, he returned to the Yale School of Fine Arts and received his B.F.A.
Received 21 awards from the American Watercolor Society between 1948 and 1983. Ten awards from the Audobon Artists including The President's Award in 1977. The Gold Medal Award from the Art Director's Club of Philadelphia in 1964. The Artists of America Award from the Denver Rotary Club in 1962.
Vickrey was a cinema addict whose interest in films and filmmaking inspired many of the recurring themes found in his work. The films he made in the ’50s were distributed by Grove Press.
The Labyrinth was purchased by Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in Spring 1952.
Annual Whitney Museum shows from 1952-1963, American Watercolor Society Annual Show 1955-2003, National Academy of Design, New York, 25 shows.
Midtown Galleries exhibited solo shows of Robert Vickrey's work biennially.
Vickrey painted over 78 Time magazine covers. Forty of these are now part of the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Vickrey wrote and published two books during this time, New Techniques in Egg Tempera (1973) with Diane Cochrane and Roberty Vickrey: Artist at Work (1979).
Vickrey's one man show every year at Harmon-Meek Gallery in Naples, Florida from 1982 to 2007.
Retrospective Exhibition featuring major paintings and drawings from 1951-2008.
Vickrey passes away at his home in Naples, FL. He was 84.
Photo credit: Stephen Wilkes
Bob at Boat Basin in 1930.
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