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Robert Kuester
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biography |
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 Ancient Sentinels
oil - 30" x 40" - $7500
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SOLD - Back Road Home
oil - 12" x 16" - $1600
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SOLD - Gallegos Park
oil - 12" x 16" - $1600
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SOLD- Nude in White Robe
oil - 20" x 16" - $1800
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SOLD - Nude with Gold Cup
oil - 30" x 24" - $4000
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 Ancient Sentinels
30" x 40" oil - $7,500
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 Apples and Vines
9" x 12" oil - $1,200
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 Evening Glory II
34" x 48" oil - $11,000 |
 Green Decanter
9" x 9" oil - $900 |
 Sunflowers
22" x 19" oil - $2,400 |
 Teapot With Persimmons
22" x 28" oil - $4000 |
 Pink Sky Near Chama
11" x 14" oil - $1,400 |
Robert Kuester received certification from the American
Portrait Society in 1984, with this commendation from the
Jury: “He exhibits a keen sense of color quality…an
excellent flow in composition…a high degree of drawing
ability… (and) skill and understanding in values.” Armed
with these formidable talents, Kuester achieves in his
portraits accurate likenesses of his subjects, and his
paintings stand as works of art in their own right. His
commissions in oil portraiture have included Milburn Stone
(“Doc” in the TV series Gunsmoke) for the National Cowboy
Hall of Fame, as well as executives, educators and deans,
accomplished women, and members of the judiciary and clergy.
Kuester, who started his artistic career as an illustrator,
has painted many prominent individuals. For CBS Fox Videos,
he has done illustrations of Shelly Duvall, jean Stapleton,
Mathew Broderick, Pam Dawber, Treat Williams, and others.
For 15 years, he produced illustrations for Toyota, General
Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Audi, and American Motors, as well
as for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Doubleday, Bendix, Rockwell
International, McDonald’s, Trader Vic’s, and General Tire.
A graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Los
Angeles, Kuester also studied in New York with Robert
Brackman of the Art Students League and with John Howard
Sanden. Since the Mid-1970’s, he has received top awards at
prestigious art shows around the United States.
Kuester works primarily from photographs and for larger
portraits often paints an initial oil sketch from life. His
distinctive and dramatic style features the use of rich and
elegant color to enhance his subject. Environmental
backgrounds, whether simple or detailed, are always used
appropriately.
A Kuester portrait has a singularly lifelike quality, which
may be attributed to his loose, yet certain, brushwork and
to the characteristically excellent likeness he achieves of
his subject. Kuester prefers an informal meeting with his
subject prior to beginning a portrait, to observe gesture,
temperament, coloring, environment, and expression. It is
the task of the portraitist, he feels, to “edit” these
collected impressions and interpret them with artistic
discretion and judgment; the best portrait, he says, is well
grounded in observation, but created with intuition.
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