Venice Magic
Type:Painting
Year:2001
Size:8.00" x 9.75"
Medium:Tempera
Signed:Lower Right
Robert Remsen Vickrey ART FOR SALE
1926 New York City - 2011 Naples, Florida. Known for: Magic realist painting, figure.
Robert Vickrey, Magic-Realist Painter, Dies at 84. By WILLIAM GRIMES. Published: April 20, 2011, The New York Times. Robert Vickrey, a painter whose often unnerving depictions of shadow-streaked... Read full biography
Robert Vickrey, Magic-Realist Painter, Dies at 84. By WILLIAM GRIMES. Published: April 20, 2011, The New York Times. Robert Vickrey, a painter whose often unnerving depictions of shadow-streaked streets populated by nuns, clowns or children at play made him a leading figure of the magic realism... Read full biography
Robert Vickrey, Magic-Realist Painter, Dies at 84. By WILLIAM GRIMES. Published: April 20, 2011, The New York Times. Robert Vickrey, a painter whose often unnerving depictions of shadow-streaked streets populated by nuns, clowns or children at play made him a leading figure of the magic realism school, died on Sunday at his home in Naples, Fla. He was 84. The death was confirmed by his son, Scott. Mr. Vickrey, who mastered the Renaissance technique of egg tempera painting as a student at Yale,... Read full biography
Robert Vickrey, Magic-Realist Painter, Dies at 84. By WILLIAM GRIMES. Published: April 20, 2011, The New York Times. Robert Vickrey, a painter whose often unnerving depictions of shadow-streaked streets populated by nuns, clowns or children at play made him a leading figure of the magic realism school, died on Sunday at his home in Naples, Fla. He was 84. The death was confirmed by his son, Scott. Mr. Vickrey, who mastered the Renaissance technique of egg tempera painting as a student at Yale, used his consummate skill to create, in his early work, hyper-real scenes suffused by an atmosphere of dread or impending disaster. He was an avant-garde filmmaker on the side, with a deep knowledge of expressionism and film noir, whose shadows,... Read full biography
Robert Vickrey, Magic-Realist Painter, Dies at 84. By WILLIAM GRIMES. Published: April 20, 2011, The New York Times. Robert Vickrey, a painter whose often unnerving depictions of shadow-streaked streets populated by nuns, clowns or children at play made him a leading figure of the magic realism school, died on Sunday at his home in Naples, Fla. He was 84. The death was confirmed by his son, Scott. Mr. Vickrey, who mastered the Renaissance technique of egg tempera painting as a student at Yale, used his consummate skill to create, in his early work, hyper-real scenes suffused by an atmosphere of dread or impending disaster. He was an avant-garde filmmaker on the side, with a deep knowledge of expressionism and film noir, whose shadows, angles and distortions he introduced into his paintings. In the 1950s and '60s Mr. Vickrey was a highly visible... Read full biography
Robert Remsen Vickrey - Art for Sale (3 available)
Key and Window
Type:Painting
Size:15.75" x 19.75"
Medium:Tempera
Signed:Signed
Exhaltation of Angels
Type:Painting
Year:2003
Size:8.00" x 10.00"
Medium:Egg Tempera
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Exhibited: Melvin Art Gallery, Lakeland, FL, Robert Vickrey: Master of Magic Realism, September 4–November 4, 2015.