About Robert M Broderson

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    Robert Broderson was born in West Haven, Connecticut on July 6, 1920 and died in Independence, Virginia on March 12, 1992. He was a painter for forty-five years from the time he entered Duke University after WWII, to his last years in his studio in Independence overlooking the New River.

    Broderson served in the Air Force from 1942 to 1945, traveling to Africa, Sicily, England and France. In 1947, with the help of the G.I. Bill, Broderson enrolled as a twenty-seven-year-old freshman at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. In his sophomore year at Duke, Broderson began the work in painting that would be his life.

    After he graduated from Duke, he received an M.F.A. from State University of Iowa. He...

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