Who is the Artist Robert Frame?

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Robert Frame is a consistent, prodigious and scholarly painter who has produced successful one-man shows and museum exhibitions yearly since 1951. Frame is widely known, admired and respected by both artists and collectors as a "Painter's Painter." His years of experience and versatility in painting are recognized by the truly sensitive, knowledgeable collector. From 1948 to 1965, Frame won 22 prizes in painting in national exhibitions as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Painting, and has been represented in numerous National Exhibitions of American Painting as well as many publications on art. As a well respected professor in fine arts, he has been influential in institutions such as Otis Art Institute, University of Southern California, Scripps College and Santa Barbara City College. Frame's paintings are a celebration of sumptuous color and painterly surface. His subjects are figures, landscapes, and interiors, saturated with light and vibrant color. To this he brings a strong, but understated structure. One thinks of Bonnard and Matisse when viewing his paintings, yet his work is intense and original. Robert lived 1924-1999. He has a beautiful painting called Walled Garden. He also has several other paintings.