About the artist:

Born as a native Atlantan, noted for his watercolor landscapes, Robert is one of the featured artiest at Avery Gallery in Marietta, GA. Mr. Reid obtained his art education at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Parsons School of Design in New York City. He made his home in New York City but lived and traveled extensively in France, creating colorful, unique views of the countryside. Although many of his watercolors were painted in France, he also painted scenes around SoHo in New York City, and in Vermont and Illinois. He became a Professor Emeritus of Rhode Island School of Design in 1995. His intent with each watercolor was to create a frame or doorway through which the viewer could enter and experience their own, very emotional response to his personal visual memories. Sketches were never made beforehand but images painted directly on linen paper. His paintings provide a poetry of the land, its color and texture, the feeling of oneness with the environment. For one fleeting moment, nature is captured and preserved so that it is not lost for all time. The beauty, mystery, and timelessness of nature has forever been captured under the artful eye of Robert Reid. Education 1948-50 Diploma, Parsons School of Design, New York 1946-48 Art Institute of Chicago, IL 1943-46 U.S. Navy 1941-43 Clark University, Atlanta, GA Academic Position 1995 Professor Emeritus of Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Solo Exhibitions 2000 Paintings: The Early Years, organized by Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts, NC 1999 Paintings: The Early Years, essay by Cynthia Nadelman, June Kelly Gallery, New York 1998 Landscapes by Robert Reid, organized by Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts, Milton Rhodes Gallery at the Sawtooth Building, Winston-Salem, NC 1997 Collector’s Show, selected by Townsend Wolfe, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK 1996 Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York 1995 Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York 1993 Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York 1992 Nye-Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD 1991 Robert Reid: Watercolors, Bill Bace Gallery, New York 1988 George Ciscle Gallery, Baltimore, MD 1987 Landscape with Figures, George Ciscle Gallery, Baltimore, MD 1979 Figures on the Beach, Alonzo Gallery, New York 1977 Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI Grand Central Moderns, New York 1976 Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Leslie Rankow Gallery, New York 1974 Leslie Rankow Gallery, New York ADI South Gallery, Campbell, CA 1973 Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 1972 North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC 1971 Alonzo Gallery, New York 1970 Figures on the Beach II, Alonzo Gallery, New York Drew University, Korn Gallery, Madison, NJ 1966 Hour Games, Grand Central Moderns, New York 1965 Grand Central Moderns, New York Public and Corporate Collections The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC The Newark Museum, New Jersey The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Musée et Galerie des Beaux Arts, Bordeaux, France Cornell University, Ithaca, NY New York University, NY AT&T, NJ Health Insurance Association of America, Washington, DC J P Morgan & Company, New York Lucent Technologies, NJ Merck & Co., Washington, DC Price Waterhouse Company, Boston, MA