ROBERT BAXTER, NA
ANA Elect 1993; NA Elect 1994

BORN 1933

EDUCATION: B.S., M.S., M.F.A./University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

TEACHING: Professor of Art; San Diego State University 1962-1973

AWARDS
University Grant: San Diego State University 1969
Guest Painter: American Academy in Rome 1969-70
Guest Painter: American Academy in Rome 1971-73
Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship (Painting) 1972
Artists Fellowship, Inc. 2000
The Pollack-Krasner Foundation 2000
Artists Fellowship, Inc. 2003
Artists Fellowship, Inc. 2004
The Pollack-Krasner Foundation 2005

GALLERIES
Perimeter, Chicago; Irving, Palm Beach, Charles Campbell, San Francisco

MEMBERSHIPS: National Academy , 1993

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
FMC Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Gruenwald Center for Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, California
Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Palo Alto, California
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Instituto Nazionale Per La Grafica, Rome, Italy
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
Vatican Pinoteca, Rome, Italy
Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, Texas
San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, California
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
de Saissett
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Hirshorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Stanford University Art Museum
Chasen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts; Racine, Wisconsin
National Academy of Design; New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Flordia
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Museum, Santa Clara, California

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles, California 1966
Bednarz Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1969
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California 1970
David Gallery, Houston, Texas 1971
Instituto Nazionale Per La Grafica, Rome, Italy 1982
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1986
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 1986
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California 1987
Norton Museum, Palm Beach, Florida 1987
ACA Galleries, New York, New York 1987
ACA Galleries, New York, New York 1990
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1994
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1997

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Madison Painters & Sculptors, Madison, Wisconsin 1956
Wisconsin Salon of Art, Madison, Wisconsin 1958
North Dakota Printmakers National Exhibition, Grand Forks, North Dakota 1958
Wisconsin Print & Drawing Exhibition, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1958
Wichita National Print & Drawing Exhibition, Wichita, Kansas 1959
Wisconsin Salon of Art, Madison, Wisconsin 1959
Religious Arts Festival, Rochester, New York 1959
Northwestern Printmakers Exhibition, Seattle, Washington 1960
Third Biennial Print Exhibition, Tulsa, Oklahoma 1960
Madison Painters & Sculptors Exhibition, Madison, Wisconsin 1960
Washington State Annual Exhibition of Prints & Drawings, Wenatchee, Washington 1961
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Hartford, Connecticut 1962
Sixth National Print Exhibition, Clinton, New Jersey 1962
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/81st Painting Annual, San Francisco, California 1962
Second National Graphics Exhibition, Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pennsylvania 1962
Third Annual Painters & Sculptors Exhibition, La Jolla, California 1962
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1963
Ninth Annual Drawing & Sculpture Exhibition, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana 1963
Seventh Annual Exhibition: Prints, Drawings, Sculpture; University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota 1963
Fifty-third Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut 1963
Drawings USA, Saint Paul Art Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota 1963
Third Annual Mercyhurst Graphics Exhibition, Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pennsylvania 1963
Twenty-fifth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting & Graphics, Society of Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida 1963
American Drawing Annual XX, Norfolk, Virginia 1963
One hundred fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1963
Fifty-fourth Connecticut Academy of Fine Art Exhibition, Hartford, Connecticut 1963
Tenth Annual Drawing & Sculpture Exhibition, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana 1964
Oklahoma Printmakers Society Sixth National Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1964
Brockton Art Association Sixth Annual Exhibition, Brockton, Massachusetts 1964
Sixth Annual Rochester Festival of Religious Arts, Rochester, New York 1964
Sixty-seventh Annual National Exhibition of Watercolor & Graphics, Washington, D.C. 1964
Thirtieth Wisconsin Salon of Art, Madison, Wisconsin 1964
Twenty-sixth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Society of Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida 1964
Fourth Annual Mercyhurst Graphics Exhibition, Erie, Pennsylvania 1964
160th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1965
Thirty-second National Graphic Arts Exhibition, Wichita, Kansas 1965
FAR Gallery, New York, New York 1965
Art on Paper, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 1965
American Drawing Biennial XXII, Norfolk Museum of Arts & Sciences, Norfolk, Virginia 1966
Art on Paper, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 1966
Byron Gallery, New York, New York 1967
Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls, TX 1969
David Gallery, Houston, Texas 1969
Bednarz Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1969
Art On Paper, Bednarz Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1970
The Drawing Society of America, The Art Galleries of the University of California, Santa Barbara, California 1970
Bednarz Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1970
The Art of Drawing, Staempfli Gallery, New York, New York 1973
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York 1975
Staempfli in Los Angeles, Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1976
New Acquisitions, San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, California 1976
San Paolo nell'Arte Contemporanea, Sala Sinodo, Vaticano, Rome, Italy 1977
Five Decades, Elviehm Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 1980
The Fine Line: Drawing with Silver in American, Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida 1985

Traveling exhibitions:
Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida 1985
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas 1985
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts 1986
Recent Acquisitions, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California 1986
Laffayette Parke Gallery, New York, New York 1989
Foster Harmon Galleries of American Art, Sarasota, Florida 1989
Art Dealers Association of America (Armory Show - ACA Gallery) New York 1989
Art Dealers Association of America (Armory Show - ACA Gallery) New York 1990
International Gallery Invitational, McCormick Pl, Chicago, Illinois (ACA Gallery) 1990
Miami Art Expo, Miami, Florida (Hollis Taggart Gallery) 1994
Hollis Taggart Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1994
Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York 1994
Chicago Art Fair (Perimeter Gallery), Chicago, Illinois 1994
Chicago Art Fair (Perimeter Gallery), Chicago, Illinois 1995
International Art Fair (ACI Art Communication International-Allan Stone Gallery), Lincoln Center, New York 1995
Talent, Allan Stone Gallery, New York 1995
Arnold Klein Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan 1997
James Watrous and Friends: The Legacy and Influence of James Watrous; Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Madison, Wisconsin 2004/05
National Academy, New York, " Recent Aquisitions" 2006
National Adademy, New York, "ITALIA!"Muse to American Artists, 1830 - 2005" 2006

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY In Retrospect: Allfred Sessler; Arts in Society, Edward L. Kamarch, Volume 3, No. 1, University of Wisconsin Press, 1962
Drawing, Daniel Mendelowitz, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, 1966
Los Angeles Times, William Wilson, October, 1967
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Millier/Shroyer, January 19, 1969
San Fernando Valley Times, Jeanne Good, January 3, 1969
Palo Alto Times, October 22, 1970
San Francisco Examiner, Alexander Fried, October 17, 1970
San Francisco Chronicle, Alfred Frankenstein, October 15, 1970
Art Week, Marilyn Hagberg, Vol. 1 No. 36, October 15, 1970
A History of American Art, Daniel Mendelowitz, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, 1970
Marilyn Perry, Robert Baxter: A Modern Renaissance Master, Rome, American Academy in Rome, 1973
A Guide to Drawing, Daniel Mendelowitz, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, 1975
San Paolo nell'Arte Contemporanea, Liberia Edrice Vaticano, 1977
Il Tempo, Franco Simongini, 13 Gennaio, 1980
Il Tempo, Achille Dei Giacomo, 9 Luglio, 1980
Il Tempo, Franco Simongini, 6 Agosto, 1981
Agnes Mongan, Robert Baxter, Rome, Galleria Nazionale, 1982, Exhibition Catalog
Bernard Kirchenbaum, Robert Baxter, Rome, Galleria Nazionale, 1982, Exhibition Catalog
Federica DiCastro, Robert Baxter, Rome Galleria Nazionale, 1982, Exhibition Catalog
Franco Simongini, The Rhythmic Demon in Robert Baxter's Drawings, Rome, Galleria Nazionale, 1982, Exhibition Catalog
La Repubblica, 21 Febbraio, 1982
O'Osservatore Romano, 21 Febbraio, 1982
Il Tempo, Franco Simongini, 22 Febbraio, 1982
Secolo d'Italia, Carlo Fabrizio Carli, 22 Febbraio, 1982
Secolo d'Italia, Carlo Fabrizio Carli, 11 Marzo, 1982
La Repubblica, 19 Febbraio, 1982
International Daily News, (The Arts), Philip Pullela, UPI, April 9, 1982
Tulsa World, Clara-Hemphill, (AP), February 19, 1982
San Diego Union, (Public Eye), February 17, 1982
Milwaukee Sentinel, Dean Jensen, August 11, 1982
The Rome Daily American, (UPI) Philip Pullela, April 9, 1982
Milwaukee Sentinel, Dean Jensen, January, 1984
Russell Bowman, Robert Baxter: The Trastevere Suite, Milwaukee Art Museum, 1986, Exhibition Catalog
Milwaukee Sentinel, Dean Jensen, June 20, 1986
The Miami Herald, Helen L. Kohen, July 5, 1987
The Palm Beach Post, Gary Schwan, June 19, 1987
Sun Sentinel, Roger Hurlburt, June, 1987
Florida's Gold Coast, Special Summer Edition, 1987
Art Gallery International, Bruce W. Pepich, August 1989
The Longboat Observer, Keven Dean, October 19, 1989
Gerald Haggarty, Robert Baxter, New York, ACA Gallery, 1990, Exhibition Catalog
Kathleen Garrison-Brandt, Robert Baxter, Chicago, Perimeter Gallery Communique, 1994
Franco Simongini, Robert Baxter, Palm Beach, Irving Gallery Communique, 1994
Clifton Olds, Robert Baxter, Chicago, Perimeter Gallery Communique, 1995






Robert Baxter
Burnished Ocher (detail), 1999-2004
Egg tempera and oil on panel, 23 x 26 inches
Courtesy of the artist