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Robert Michener was born in l935 in the small,
farming community of Preston Minnesota. The hardwood covered hills,
limestone cliffs, and fertile valleys of that area along with the
mountains and coasts of British Columbia have long been a visual and
emotional source for Michener’s landscape paintings. Michener entered
Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota where he received a BA degree
in l957. After a two year stint in the U. S. Army, he entered graduate
school at The University of Minnesota where he completed his MFA degree
in painting in 1962.
Michener taught art at the University of Minnesota, Western Washington
University and the University of Cincinnati before immigrating to Canada
in l973 to accept a position at the Vancouver School of Art
(subsequently The Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design) where he
retired from teaching in l999.
Michener’s work has been shown in more than numerous solo and group
shows in Canada, the United States and Europe. His works are included in
more than two hundred public, corporate and private collections in
Canada, the U. S. and Europe.
“Landscape has been my primary motif for more than thirty years. In the
art of painting, the landscape motif symbolizes the conceptions and
feelings people hold in relation to nature. I choose to paint landscape
because of my boyhood intimacy with nature and because I believe that
the most urgent challenge facing humanity is to discover a viable way to
live with nature...” -Robert Michener
Joy of Spring Oil on canvas 50" x 64" Available in
Hong Kong
Sun and Shade Oil on canvas 40" x 50"
Available in Hong Kong
Forest Pool Oil on canvas 48" x 40" Available in Hong
Kong
Rocky Mountain Canyon with Angler Oil on canvas 50" x 40"
Available in Hong Kong
Sunday Angler Oil on canvas 30" x 24" Available in
Hong Kong
From a Gulf Island Cliff 2001 Oil on canvas 60" x 45"
Available in Vancouver
Still Water, Angler and Swallows 2001 Oil on canvas
30" x 45" Available in Vancouver
Fisherman in a Canyon II 2002 Oil on canvas 40" x 50"
Available in Vancouver
Pastorale 1966 Oil on linen 53" x 58" SOLD
artist's cv
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