Robert Buckland

Untitled Nude

circa 1980
oil and gesso on board 

signed by the artist

size 20 1/4" wide x 30 1/4" high

SOLD 

"...I had no idea that artists didn't make money. I came from a right-wing Republican family, I had spent four years in the Navy, I was in industry, I was one of these on time working kind'a guys making a living as a glass blower. Then I made my first crystal chess set. It sold. I didn't know that artists didn't make money! I found out later. It was good for me not to know then."

( excerpt from an interview with Lisa Leonard )

Detail

unframed. Good condition overall.  Some chipping along bottom and lower left edge.

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.  

"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