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Rob McIlvaine began his career during the 60's as a freelance artist,
securing work as an actor on stage and in film, as a musical performer, and
as a radio disc jockey, while drawing and painting everything he saw. After
an interruption for Vietnam, he returned from overseas to pursue degrees in
Art, Creative Writing and Film & Video Production. With these under his
belt, he once again took up freelance work as an artist, first working for
the Smithsonian and the World Bank as associate producer and later for the
National Museum of the American Indian as executive producer. All the while,
however, he painted portraits of children, adults and their animals. |
ADULTS ANIMALS CHILDREN FLOWERS BIO POLITICAL SPOTS |
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A member of the American Society of Portrait Artists, Rob has exhibited in
group and solo shows at West Chester University, Delaware County Community
College, Chester County Art Association (PA), Simpson House of Philadelphia,
Women in Film and Video Gala, and he was invited to show at the Boston
Museum of Art. His work hangs in theaters, private homes and offices in
Munich, Tokyo, Bangkok, London and throughout the United States. He holds an
M.A. in TV and Film Production from The American University, and a B.A. in
Studio Art and Creative Writing from West Chester University in PA. His portrait work is mostly of people in his local community and visiting dignitaries, and his animal paintings are of local farm animals and pets and the occasional deer, opossum or rabbit that might wander across his Pennsylvania farm. His approach to these subjects is based on the early influence of his teacher, Delaware artist Gus Sermas, and on his enjoyment of the masters, most notably Peter Paul Rubens for his lusty exuberance and almost frenetic energy, and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, characterized by his luxuriant brushwork, rich color, and mastery of chiaroscuro. But he never forgets his routes, the early portrait artists of Colonial Pennsylvania: his cousin, Jacob Eicholtz, Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins and Brandywine portraitist, George Weymouth. |
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