robertMICHENER

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

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