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Item #AT-00444"Trees, Sky-Late Summer" Oil on Canvas by Richard Frooman (1930 - 2014)
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Description:"Trees, Sky-Late Summer" Oil on Canvas by Richard Frooman (1930 - 2014)
Measures: 17" x 20" unframed 18" x 21" Framed
Provenance:
The Estate of American Artist Robert Bruce Walker(1946-2020)
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Richard Frooman was born in Chicago on September 1, 1930. He attended Wilson Junior College in Chicago and received his BFA degree from the Chicago Art Institute in 1952. He was awarded an Anna Louis Raymond Traveling Fellowship from the art institute for traveling in Europe in 1953. Frooman was an artist in Special Services in the Army Corps of Engineers from 1953 to 1955. He was a teacher of fine art in Hawaii, Michigan, and Arizona. He was known for many different styles and techniques. Over the years Richard Frooman illustrated many paintings and drawings for publications and magazines such as Playboy. His landscapes he called ”Slices of Earth” These paintings are about some of the earth's formations -- hills, mounds, rocks, strata, organic and inorganic matter. The paintings are emotional responses to visual sensations that occur from the result of erosion and the quality of light.
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He used translucent and transparent layers of paint that are combined with charcoal drawings on carefully prepared linen canvas. The technique is deliberately slow in an attempt to reflect the evolving process of the subject matter itself.
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"Frooman's exceptional sensitivity to natural earth formations creates rich-colored abstract designs while concurrently rendering their more 'real' appearance…." George Palovich, Curator of the Sun Cities Museum of Art
Don J. Anderson of Gilman Galleries Chicago wrote "The sweep of the beach beyond the dunes pulls you off your feet with virtuoso painting that leaves you breathless. Pigment applied with all the fiery passion of a spirited orchestra conductor captures the freshness and vigor of a brisk breeze bursting in from across the lake. This is a man of action and a master of art…."
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The Curator of Sun Cities Museum of Art, George Palovich wrote: "Frooman's exceptional sensitivity to natural earth formations creates rich-colored abstract designs while concurrently rendering their more 'real' appearance…."
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Richard Frooman has had numerous one-man shows in major galleries throughout the United States. His work has been shown in many important museum group shows, including The National Academy of Design in New York, Honolulu Academy of Art, Chicago Art Institute, Detroit Institute of Art, Butler Museum of American Art in Ohio and San Diego Art Museum.
Frooman passed away October 11, 2014, in Mesa Arizona.
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