Robert Casper (American, 1928-2012)

Street Performers, 1988. Acrylic mixed with matte medium and pumice on canvas, signed and dated lower left, unframed. Provenance: from the collection of artist's son-in-law.

Robert Casper is known for modernist landscape painting, animation, and as being a storyboard artist. From 1954 – 1958 he worked in the animation industry, spending a good deal of this time at UPA in Burbank, CA, working as an assistant animator while freelancing producing storyboards. What interested him most was form and structure which dominated his thoughts throughout his career. In 1985 he published his treatise …On the Essence of Pictorial Form, which outlined his views on modern art and the fundamentals of pictorial construction.

Condition: Very good.