Robert Crooker

Bayou, Original Acrylic Painting, 2019

2019

Artist Commentary: My painting studio is cold. It's January/February in Massachusetts. So I painted a cold picture... Keywords: Winter, Island, Snow, Trees, snow, lake, ice, refle...

Artist Commentary: They were just flying at me and the scene was perfect so I took the picture. And then it had to be painted... Keywords: Water, Mountains, Sea, Pelicans Artist Biography: Robert...

Descend, Original Signed Contemporary Landscape Painting 30" x 20" x 2" (HxWxD) Acrylic on Canvas Hand-signed by the artist. Artist Robert Crooker captures the sublime in this almost otherworldly painting of a cavernous sinkhole. A small figure can be seen descending through the expansive depth of the natural formation, their silhouette juxtaposed against a misty white backdrop. The composition features a vignette of darkness, broken up by the beam of sunlight able to pour down through the open hole, illuminating mossy green rocks. Artist Commentary: This is a pretty massive sink hole which is massively impressive so I tried to recreate the photograph of it onto canvas. I'm pretty happy! Artist Biography: Robert Crooker was born in Massachusetts in 1951. A life long Red Sox fan, he saw the likes of Frank Malzone, Yaz, George Scott, Rico, Jim Lonborg all play in years gone by. He has been married for over 27 years with 4 children, and 2 grandchildren. In the Mid-1970’s, Robert started collecting Vintage Disney Collectibles dated from the 1930’s and 40’s. His passion for collecting grew so rapidly that in the 1980’s it became a business. He bought and sold “DISNEYANA” worldwide, realizing thousands of dollars for single pieces of rare highly sought after Disney merchandise. Robert is the leading world expert on the values of these collectibles. As an adventure in American art, these rarities were created during a time when toy manufacturers had art departments employed with many artists that created some of the most beautiful children’s toys ever created. While running Disneyana – Mouse Man...

Artist Commentary: This picture is of 2 mountains in the Huangshan (Yellow) Mountains in South China. Keywords: mountain, explorer, frontier, wilderness, hiking, mountain, discover,...

Artist Commentary: Houston Keywords: Houston, Texas, the south, Seascape, Full Moon, Reflection, ocean, sea, night, sky, blue, moon, sunset, reflection, view, ripples, color, colorf...

Artist Commentary: Dark, raining and the street light silhoettes 2 birds. Keywords: bird, street light, street, black and white, painting, creepy, eerie, halloween, scary, white, bl...

Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Artist Statement "Eaton Canyon is one of my favorite places to plein air paint, as to me it t...

The paintings are drawn with acrylic on the hardboard (back side made of the double cardboard). The first image in the "You and I are of the same blood" series is "Black Panther. Gr...

The paintings are drawn with acrylic on the hardboard (back side made of the double cardboard). Acrylic paints are used to create the painting on canvas animals and ecology. A cruci...

The paintings are drawn with acrylic on the hardboard (back side made of the double cardboard). Acrylic paints are used to create the painting on canvas animals and ecology. A cruci...

The paintings are drawn with acrylic on the hardboard (back side made of the double cardboard). Acrylic paints are used to create the painting on canvas animals and ecology. A cruci...

Dividing Light II [2021] Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Dividing Light II is an original painting by artist Sheryl Roberts. Sheryl has mastered the composition of dramatic light...