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Born 1940 Glen Rose, Texas. Known for: Western narrative-views, sculptor.
A resident of Glen Rose, Texas, Robert Summers is an oil painter and sculptor in realist style of contemporary western subjects, especially cattle ranching. He is the creator of numerous public art... Read full biography
A resident of Glen Rose, Texas, Robert Summers is an oil painter and sculptor in realist style of contemporary western subjects, especially cattle ranching. He is the creator of numerous public art projects including the world's largest bronze for the Pioneer Plaza at the Dallas Convention Center.... Read full biography
A resident of Glen Rose, Texas, Robert Summers is an oil painter and sculptor in realist style of contemporary western subjects, especially cattle ranching. He is the creator of numerous public art projects including the world's largest bronze for the Pioneer Plaza at the Dallas Convention Center. It has seventy longhorn steers and three horses and riders on a cattle drive. Completed in the mid 1990s, it took him two and a half years. As a child in Glen Rose, he took art lessons and was... Read full biography
A resident of Glen Rose, Texas, Robert Summers is an oil painter and sculptor in realist style of contemporary western subjects, especially cattle ranching. He is the creator of numerous public art projects including the world's largest bronze for the Pioneer Plaza at the Dallas Convention Center. It has seventy longhorn steers and three horses and riders on a cattle drive. Completed in the mid 1990s, it took him two and a half years. As a child in Glen Rose, he took art lessons and was inspired by his father, a local judge and Frederic Remington buff. In his 20s, he worked with the Texas Highway Department and then with General Dynamic Aircraft, while working part time as an artist. Expressing desire to devote full time to his art career,... Read full biography
A resident of Glen Rose, Texas, Robert Summers is an oil painter and sculptor in realist style of contemporary western subjects, especially cattle ranching. He is the creator of numerous public art projects including the world's largest bronze for the Pioneer Plaza at the Dallas Convention Center. It has seventy longhorn steers and three horses and riders on a cattle drive. Completed in the mid 1990s, it took him two and a half years. As a child in Glen Rose, he took art lessons and was inspired by his father, a local judge and Frederic Remington buff. In his 20s, he worked with the Texas Highway Department and then with General Dynamic Aircraft, while working part time as an artist. Expressing desire to devote full time to his art career, he was supported for one year by a cousin, and by the late 1960s, he was achieving public success. In 1976, he was recognized as the official... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (11)
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesArt of the West Guidebook of Western Artists 2001 Edition
2001Editors, Art of the West88 pages (color)Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997Southwest Art128 pagesMaster Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993Southwest Art64 pagesThe Red Book Western American Price Index
1993Southwest Art126 pagesDictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984Opitz, Glenn B (editor)656 pagesContemporary Western Artists
1982Samuels, Peggy and Harold608 pages (color)Stamford Art Foundation Exhibit and Sale, 1975 John Selmon Memorial Gallery
1975
(Exhibition catalog)Hudson, I.F. (Introduction); Frank W. Meyers, Jr.87 pagesThe Renaisance of Western Art
1974Ward, Johanna Walsh144 pages (color)Bronzes of the American West
1973Broder, Patricia Janis; Harold McCracken (Intro)429 pages (color)