Robert Postma (American, b. 1939), Celebration

acrylic on canvas, 2012-2019, signed and dated at lower right, inscribed to verso, framed.
Frame dimensions 49 x 37 in.
Robert Postma was born in Akron, Ohio. He studied Art & Art History at the Akron Art Institute, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Western Reserve University (B.S., 1962) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.F.A., 1963).

Postma began exhibiting paintings in 1963, with shows in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Toronto and throughout North Carolina. He was a faculty member and guest artist in several art departments including Colgate Univesrity, Philadelphia College of Art and Ontario College of Art.

In 1969, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and painted in Antibes, France and the Catskills of New York.

Postma was selected as a master artist for the North Carolina Arts Council's Artist's Training Program in 1980. In 1985, he began working with children with intellectual and developmental disabilites. After retiring from Guilford County Schools in 1999, he founded the Exceptional Friends Art Studio where he works with adults with disabilities.

His paintings are in numerous collections including the Asheville Art Museum, Cameron Museum of Art in Wilmington, and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia.

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Very good estate condition.