James Robinson

"THE COWBOYS" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY James Robinson (1944-2015)

20th Century

Biography James Robinson (1944-2015) Austin, Dallas and Houston, Texas, SHOWS American Royal Association Show, Kansas City Brazos Art Classic, College Station, Texas Cheyenne Show, Cheyenne Southeastern Wildlife Exposition, Charleston Stamford Art Foundation, Stamford, Texas Miniatures, 91 92 White Oak Gallery, Elko, Minnesota Mountain Oyster Show, Tucson National Finals Art Auction, Las Vegas River Oaks Classic, Houston PUBLICATIONS Southwest Art, Feature, December 1983 Sporting Classics, Feature, May/June 1992 Gulf Tide, Feature, May/June 1981 Houston Home and Garden Texas Homes Texas Hunters Directory, Selected one of the Top 10 Texas Artists Ducks Unlimited Artist of the Year, 1990 COLLECTIONS Texaco Brown and Root Marathon Oil Granada Corporation Bing Crosby Family Shell Oil Montgomery Ward Private Collections Houston, Texas 1963- 1974 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Texas Association of Professional Artist EDUCATION The University of Houston 1965- 1968 South Texas Junior College 1963- 1965 Completed 100 hours of curriculum leading to B.F.A James Robinson was a native of the Lone Star State, proud of his heritage. His ancestors were early pioneers to Texas in the early 1840's. In those days Texas' unspoiled beauty, untraveled terrain, rugged bluffs and creeks dominated. James was inspired by their stories and chose Texas's rugged landscape as his primary subject matter. An intimate knowledge of Texas and the many facets of the western landscape are obvious when one views a painting created by the artist. Born in Houston in 1944, James always knew he would be an artist. He was committed to his education and earned a BFA. He studied both commercial and fine art as a free-lance designer and illustrator, polishing his painting skills on the side. It was at this stage in his career that his dad, J.C. literally absconded with one of his paintings and marched into a local gallery to show what his son could do. From that day on, he dedicated his life to fine art and has enjoyed a most remarkable career. James has always been influenced by such artists as Frank Tenney Johnson, James Reynolds, Howard Terpning, John Singer Sargent and Joaquin Sorolla. He seeks to evoke these qualities in his own work and establish his own niche in western art by unique combinations of light, color and action to leave a lasting impact on the viewer. James won numerous awards including "Artist's Choice" in 2010 and "Best Group" in 2007 with a cash award of $5000 from the Briscoe Museum's Night of Artist's show in San Antonio, Texas. Another honor was "Olaf Wieghorst Award" for the best painting at the 2007 Mountain Oyster Show in Tucson, Arizona.