Robert Seabeck works within a tradition of realism that has been a strong direction historically in American art. His subjects include landscapes, wildlife, flowers and vehicles. Born in Casper, Wyoming, Seabeck attended four colleges majoring in art at each. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at California State in Long Beach and his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Wyoming in Laramie in 1976.
From 1978 to 1992, Seabeck served as an artist-in-residence for the Wyoming Arts Council, and has demonstrated painting at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody for the past eleven years. His art is displayed in a number of corporate and private collections and museums including the El Paso Museum of Art, the University of Wyoming, the Wyoming State Museum at Cheyenne, the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody.
Bob Jacob
Bob Jacob was born and raised in northeastern Oklahoma. His mother, a vocalist, pianist and china painter, provided the creative yin; his father, an accountant and fun-loving sportsman, the yang. In the early years, Bob tempted bass with a top-water plug, plunked away on the piano and learned the finer points of finessing wild ducks to a decoy spread.He turned more of his attention to oil painting as his writing and photojournalism career began to wind down in the late ‘90s. Classes at the Art Students League of Denver were followed by regular group painting sessions at Cody Country Art League. One of the greatest influences in moving him toward spreading pigment was attending the 1997 Quick Draw at the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale, where he observed the late Dean St. Clair complete a one-hour gem. That piece now hangs in Bob’s historic Cody home.
I love the act of creating and painting…the challenge and sometimes anxiety of the first mark and of filling a blank “canvas” with rich pastel pigments. When you look at these pigments they make you hungry! If you mix pastel…you get mud. You have to create layers of pigment and it gives the viewer a sense of unbelievable depth, dimension, and clarity of color. I love to play with the medium. Sometimes just making marks side by side on a good paper is insightful…the pigments are so pure its always surprising what you might come up with and what you might use in your next work
Denny Karchner
Denny has been a graphic artist since the age of thirteen, later attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Shortly after graduating, under the strong influence of Pittsburgh artist, Andy Warhol, he turned to screen printing as an art form. For the next twenty-five years, he owned and managed a large screen print operation in Pennsylvania. Later, as a "high-end" illustrator for Vanity Fair's screen printing operation in Tampa, Florida, he designed and developed graphics for the likes of the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAA, Nascar and Harley-Davidison. More recently, Denny has produced graphics and oils that have passed though the Buffalo Bill Historical Center Art Auctions. He has two pieces hanging permanently in the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. Another facet of Denny's art career has been the privilege of producing NFL player portraits from the 50s, 60s, and 70s for Art Rooney, Jr., the son of late, great owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He is currently commissioned to paint some of the newer Steeler players for the Steeler organization.
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