Robert Buckland

Untitled Landscape III

(Trees and Meadow)

circa 1980
oil and gesso on board 

signed by the artist

image area 10" wide x 7 3/4" high

framed size 14 1/4" wide x 12 1/4" high

SOLD 

very good condition. 

Detail with signature

Framed in gold painted wood frame. 

Inner liner has some minor discoloration from age.

Robert Buckland is a career artist who has worked as a glass artist, painter, and woodcarver.  His is best known for his evocative and expressive woodcarvings of nudes and other human subjects. His use of simple forms and elegant lines evoke a sense of inner peace and beauty. His approach to his work, and his life, is thoughtful, direct, and honest.  

"....His choice of Rembrandt as mentor effectively wedded the two elements that to this day persist in his work; the classical and the romantic, the formal and the intuitive. Rembrandt's figures and portraits have powerful spatial existence coupled with mystery, a legacy persistent in Buckland's painting; a strong chiaroscuro and sculptor's inclination toward the monochromatic in preference to the more chromatic and decorative possibilities in painting."

( excerpt from an article by Nicholas Solovioff, M.F.A. Art History, Harvard University )

"The paintings of Bob Buckland have the sophisticated innocence, charm, and pristine quality that all of us feel but few of us can articulate.  Simple complexity of his lines may very well symbolize the return of humanity towards a new life of graceful relationships.  The human figure is the greatest work of god and Bob Buckland's concern with the human figure could very well be a religious experience of innocence and understanding which then can act as  a catalyst for all men to achieve a more sane society."  Fred Katz - circa 1970