He was considered a pioneer of a contemporary approach to the field that began in the 1950s. It incorporates a carved wooden figure from the Peru (IN) Circus Winter Quarters. One of three portraits done by REW of the great Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey clown/aerialist who traveled with the Walter Guice Troupe. Auction Records. This fantasy work by REW celebrates the work of Acrylic on panel. View Robert Weaver’s artworks on artnet. “It’s the person who crashes the party who really observes everything, isn’t it?
Resources. The subject was one of the great clowns on the Ringling Circus at the turn of the 20th century. Old fashioned shoe-shine emporium. 78 x 56 inches.
Robert Edward Weaver (November 15, 1913 – July 18, 1991) was an American regionalist artist, and illustrator. (collection of the Peru Community Schools Art Gallery) #W183Oil on board. The traveling circus of the age was a symphony of man and beast. Overview . The work also was know as Oil on panel, 64 x 51.5 inches.
REW painted this as a tribute to the great tramp clown, Otto Griebling.
Exhibited at the Grand Central Galleries, NYC in 1952. (private collection) #191Acrylic on panel. Formerly in the collections of Paul Kollsman, and Andrew Crispo. The student was headed up to the picture file at the New York Public Library.“What sort of photo reference are you looking for?”‘ Weaver asked.“Why don’t you stay on this corner and draw a bus stopped in traffic?”“Photos are better,” said the student as he hopped on the bus.One day he showed us his famous series of drawings of Ebbets Field after it had been forsaken by the Brooklyn Dodgers. (on temporary loan Stonington Historical Society, Palmer House) #169Acrylic on panel. And the students turned out to be pretty amazing as well. Exhibited at the 44th Indiana Artists Club and the artist's one-man-show at the Indiana State Museum. Related Pages. #W216Oil on board. You have a genuine charm to your illustrations that is strangely comforting… I can easily see why children would be beguiled by them and adults attracted to the earnest, hand-drawn appeal. REW was always interested in improving his skill as a painter.
Another subject in the "Gothic" style of REW's 1950's period. I start to feel like I belong, then I recall the haunting words of the Weave. Buy / Sell . In October, 1948, REW was awarded the Joseph J. Daniels Award for this work entitled Oil on board. He talked about growing up in Pittsburgh during the Depression, how he and his brother didn’t have enough money for bleacher seats, but they would still go out to Forbes Field. I don’t check blog every day.
32 x 24 inches. This is a large scale work by REW depicting the great Hanneford riding family. #45Oil on board, 20” x 30,” signed lower right corner (Mark E. Weaver collection) #W117Oil on panel. His stories might have seemed like digressions, but they always related to the central theme of his teaching, – the power and poignancy of observation. It was painted while REW was living in New York's Greenwich Village. One of the few works painted by REW during WWII. Formerly in the collections of Paul Kollsman, and Andrew Crispo. A private showing and sale of several of his works was mounted at Whitehall at the Villa antiques in Chapel Hill, NC. More significantly was an in-depth exhibition and sale by Eckert Fine Art of Indianapolis, IN. Wherever REW traveled, his mind was not far from the circus of his childhood. It was a long run and after a while he began to find his stage career tedious. The stiff drawing involved to create this image was typical of REW's work post WWII. 45 x 29.5 inches. A southern baptism is illustrated here, inspired by the artist's travel in the southern states. Auction Records (1) For Sale (1) Signatures (0) Biography. Charts.
(collection of the Peru Community Schools Art Gallery) #W231Acrylic on panel.
The Hostler directed the action of the wagons on the circus lot. 58.25 x 24 inches. John Robert Weaver, American artist.. [John Robert Weaver; Museum of Nebraska Art. 67" x 55" – One summer REW traveled with the circus, working odd jobs and meeting performers on the show. Oil on panel. See more ideas about Weavers, Illustration, 20th century. 33.5 x 27.5 inches. The famous Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Lion cage wagon is pulled by the "Bull Man" or Elephant team. The Baggage Stock would aid in the loading and unloading of circus wagons to and from the trains. Exhibited at the Indiana Artists' Club and Herron Museum of Art. Thanks for letting me read it.
Years of posters on the side of a building create this abstract record of the coming and going of the circus. 39.25 x 29.5 inches. Get Alerts .
#W224Oil on panel. He was professor emeritus of art at the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The subject is a rescued Japanese fighter pilot. #W116Acrylic on gesso panel. I always pestered him for peanuts, which he always had in a large jar on his bar at home. You’ve got to decide about school for yourself, but that’s a precious gift you’ve got, that feeling that you don’t belong.”I told him I’d think about what he’d said, and I did. Here the Wallace Shows ticket wagon awaits its end bathed in moonlight.
55 x 43 inches. This small painting by REW is probably one of his first dealing with the subject of auto racing in the midwestern United States. Mickey and I would walk back to the Path train and recount what had just happened many nights. 57 x 36 inches. REW was probably still in his teens when he painted this action packed image. This work is akin to James Abbott McNeill Whistler's, Oil on panel. REW was always interested in improving his skill as a painter. There, he continued to produce easel work and experiment with abstract art. “You’ve got to nurture that. I hope it turns into a book on Mr. Robert Weaver.Hi Jeff, amigo, Maybe it was only me and Mickey Paraskevas called him the Weave. (on temporary loan Stonington Historical Society, Palmer House) #169Acrylic on panel. Betty became Weaver's greatest critic and champion. No matter what, the show had to go on, and on time. I recall times when only 2 or 3 students showed up.
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