When Robert White was eight years old, his kindergarten teacher handed him a ball of clay.  He handed back a 16-horse stagecoach with doors that worked and details down to the bullets in the pistols.  The event began a life of expression though art and a passion to explore every artistic medium available in the pursuit of that passion.

Unable to attend art school because of financial limitations, he pursued the craft on his own terms.  Exploring various mediums and techniques, White would pore over the work of American, European and Renaissance artists.  He obsessed with technique and would study the Masters work until he comprehended each stroke, each inference of shape, consequence of color, perspective, light and shadow.

 

Soon, technical proficiency gave way to understanding his own artistic vision and White was on his way to a life informed and supported by art of many kinds.  His first real recognition came in the medium of oil painting.  After his first showing he was immediately commissioned by The Four Seasons, Toyota and Bank of America corporations.  Soon followed commissions by Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Cher and John Wayne.

His oils and talent now established and widely collected, White continues his restless pursuit of multi-medium mastery through sculpting in clay, bronze, and wood.  He is also a museum quality furniture maker.  A fitting evolution to a life filled with years of exploration and discovery that started with a ball of clay that turned into a stagecoach with little doors that worked.

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