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Daughters, Robert, artist: "Wheat" Lithograph, undatedEntry/Object ID
AM1991.39.1Scope and Content
Daughters, Robert, artist: "Wheat" Lithograph, undated . b/w lithograph on paper. Picture of a farmer in bib overalls standing in a wheat field with pitchfork in his hand. Storm clouds over barn in background. He has a dark expression. The figure is reminiscent of "American Gothic". Titled "Wheat" at bottom of lithograph, and signed by the artist "R.A. Daughters". 2 copies. #3 and #4 of 5. Daughters is a St. Joseph native.
Robert Daughters (1929-2013) was a renowned Southwestern Artist. He was born on February, 17th, 1929 and raised in St. Joseph, Missouri by his father, Don and mother, On Daughters. Robert joined the Army in 1948 to serve in the Korean War but was instead sent to Germany and served for 2 years in the occupational effort. He was discharged in 1950, achieving the rank of Corporal. Robert graduated from Central high school in St. Joseph, Missouri in 1947. After high school and his military service he attended Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design in Kansas City, Missouri where he received a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art.
During a 1953 visit to Taos, Robert discovered the beauty and light of the area. He and his family finally made their move to Santa Foe in 1970, then to Taos in 1972. In those interim years he became a partner in a highly successful advertising art studio in Kansas City, Missouri. During those seventeen years, he won numerous awards from the National Society of Art Directors, the Artist Guide, paper companies and other organizations in like fields. For twenty years he lived in the O.E. Bernini home and studio in Taos, New Mexico. In his later years, much of the artist's time was spent in his homes in Santa Foe, New Mexico and Arkansas. Robert married Sandra McGruter in 1953 Kansas City.
He was recipient of the 2004 Master's of the Southwest Award from "Phoenix Home and Garden Magazine" and was featured in the March 2004 issue. In that same year he was also named in Southwest Art Magazine's 30th Anniversary issue and he is listed in Who's in American Art.
Over the years a distinctive style has emerged in his work: bold brush strokes and combined light and dark colors in compositions that are painstakingly designed and executed.
Daughters called the practice of alternating light and dark colors colors‚ for its resemblance to the ancient Asian enamel technique.Lexicon
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