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Robert Daughters
Although Robert Daughters was an awarded and successful commercial artist
for many years, a brief honeymoon trip to Taos in 1953 haunted him. In 1972, he took the plunge
and left security and his commercial art style behind. His illustrations had always been
highly realistic and he worked to unlearn that control and allow his creativity to dictate
his technique. Daughters style can be described as broad-brush impressionism and he is
often compared to Van Gogh. Actually Daughters technique is achieved in a fundamentally
different manner with bold dark strokes used for his initial layout that are often seen
through the overlaid colors creating a cloisonne effect reminiscent of stained glass. All of
Daughters serigraphs are hand-pulled and edition sizes are typically under 250.
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