About the artist:

Born in Bunclody, Co. Wexford, Ireland Roberts currently lives and works in New York City EDUCATION 1966-67 - Studied and painted in Rome 1963-64 - Royal Academy of the Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid 1962-63 - Academy of the Fine Arts, Florence 1961-62 - The National College of Art, Dublin SELECT LARGER PROJECTS 1997 - Mural for the stairwell wall (18 x 18 feet approx.) of the Avrett penthouse residence in Beekman Place (433 East 51st Street) Manhattan. Painted between February 5 and October 3, 1997, on eight canvas panels. This is an interpretation of Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s fresco Good 1968 - Government in the City which is in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. 1962 - Mural for the Cowles Communications Group, Des Moines, IA, 9 x 20 feet. Painting for the church of San Girolamo, Fiesole, Florence, 14 x 9 feet. SELECT COLLECTIONS Belgium, Canada, Colombia, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy: Rome, Florence: the Church of San Girolamo, Fiesole, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland, The Hunterian museum, Glasgow, Switzerland, and in the United States: California, Connecticut (The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield), Iowa, Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania Executed a commission for the United Nations, a painting to commemmorate the eradication of smallpox. This painting was reproduced in a limited edition. SOLO SHOWS 2009 2008 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1994 1992 1991 1983 1978 1973 Greenacres Gallery Peppercanister Gallery United Nations Gallery 549 James Francis Trezza Fine Art Burlington Gallery Minoos Gallery Eltonart Cornelia Street Gallery Gallery 549 Gallery 549 Samson Fine Arts Samson Fine Arts Samson Fine Arts Almorial Gallery Butler House Gallery Smith-Mackay Gallery American-Irish Historical Society Vox Populi Gallery (Colin de Land) Private 74 Below Gallery Trinity Church, Wall Street