Robert Broderson North Carolina, Connecticut (1920 - 1992) Harlequins ink wash on paper signed upper right. EX Catherine Viviano Gallery, NYC Biography from the Archives of askART: Biography from Boca Raton Museum of Art Robert Broderson was born July 6, 1920 in West Haven, Connecticut. He died in Independence, Virginia on March 12, 1992. He began painting as an older student attending Duke University on the G.I. Bill after World War II. After he graduated from Duke in 1950, he continued painting and studied printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky at the State University of Iowa, where he received an M.F.A. in 1952. Broderson then returned to Duke where he taught classes in drawing and painting for twelve years and became an Associate Professor of Art. He left Duke in 1964 after receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship*. Broderson also taught at North Carolina State in Raleigh in 1967-68, and at the Skowhegan School* of Painting and Sculpture in Maine during the summer of 1967. After the 1960s, Broderson gave up teaching and devoted himself full-time to painting. Broderson was a figurative painter, concerned with human and other figures. His subjects, as he said, "always tend more toward the imaginative than the real." The people in his paintings are not real people; the landscapes do not exist in nature. By The Boca Raton Museum of Art 21"H x 17 1/2"W