Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Robert Weaver became a magazine illustrator who inserted philosophical challenges into his works. Publications included Fortune, Life, Look, Playboy, Town and Country and Cosmopolitan.

Weaver studied at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Art Students League in New York and the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Venice. For more than 35 years, he taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and also was a faculty member at Syracuse University.

In 1977, the School of the Visual Arts Museum gave a retrospective exhibit of his work, and in 1985, he was elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.

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Walt Reed, The Illustrator in America, ...