#American artist new mexico scenery professional#
Upon graduation from Alliance High School he was accepted by the Ivy School of Professional Art, Pittsburgh. He won several state and national awards for commercial design while still in high school, including a journalism award for editorial cartooning from Kent State University. Spending his formative years in northeastern Ohio, Bob received encouragement and a strong interest in the visual arts at an early age from his mother, executing his first oil painting at the age of ten. The subject for his paintings are at once topographical, varied, and diverse. Bob’s distinctive style includes a randomness of natural forms and a strong sense of place. Benjamin, Southwestern landscape artist, is known for the realistic elements and the epic scope of his compositions, which are depictions of actual scenes in New Mexico. His expression and artistic vision of the innate beauty of the New Mexico landscape continue to be celebrated to this day. In 1998, New Mexico Magazine invited Bob to be the 2001 Distinguished Calendar Artist for their millennium issue, publishing twelve of his pastels.
He traveled throughout New Mexico for artistic inspiration from the beauty of its land forms and the excitement of its dramatic lighting. In 1995, Bob turned to landscape painting full-time, working with impressionist landscape painter Les Hawks. At this time, he also designed silver jewelry still in production and garnered several commercial art awards.
He found himself involved in many design projects, designing children’s wear for an international market, working as an art director for several Albuquerque advertising agencies, and in 1992, attending computer classes at the University of New Mexico to further hone his illustration and design skills. After making the determination that Southwest Bronze had fulfilled its mission, in 1986, he donated the foundry to the Institute of American Indian Art, in Santa Fe. He also taught bronze sculpture casting and mold-making techniques, and was known for generously sharing information and his knowledge as an art publisher.Įver restless to gain new experience and knowledge, Bob began studying steel sculpture fabrication at the University of New Mexico with sculptor David Anderson.
Numerous artists published sculpture editions under Bob’s guidance. In January 1980, Bob and a partner opened Southwest Bronze, a sculpture foundry and artist contract studio, in downtown Albuquerque. Keith and foundry director Tommy Hicks, of Shidoni Art Foundry, Santa Fe. Again he sought guidance from the experts, studying casting techniques with art/caster A.J. Gorman, Travis Whitfield, Russell Hamilton, Earl Biss and others, Bob became restless to broaden his creative horizons and began studying another form of multiple originals: bronze sculpture. Although benefiting while working at Western Graphics from contact with such artist luminaries as Charles Lovato, Jerry Ingram, R.C.
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