Robert has been a professional painter and illustrator for fifty years. Born and raised in Livingston, Montana, he grew up sneaking away from school to draw the landscape and its wildlife and explore what might be around the next corner. He began his career as an illustrator and watercolorist. He was the Artist-In-Residence at the Lake Hotel in Yellowstone National Park, where his work is exhibited throughout the hotel, and he worked with Jack Horner at the Museum of the Rockies, providing the interpretive dinosaur illustrations for the Special Museum Exhibits. Robert has done illustration work for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition (of which he is a founding member), Orvis, Winston Rods, Defenders of Wildlife, the U.S. National Forest Service, the Montana Dept. of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, the Boone and Crockett Club, Montana Audubon Council, U.S. Forest Service, Roberts Reinhart Publishers, Sasquatch Books, among others. Robert added oil and plein air painting to his artistic repertoire and is now a member of the distinguished Montana Painters Alliance, the Impressionist Society, and the Oil Painters of America. His work has been selected for exhibits and auctions by the Charles M. Russell Museum, the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, the Yellowstone Art Museum, the Missoula Art Museum, the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, the Hockaday Museum of Art, and the WaterWorks Art Museum and galleries throughout the West. Robert’s work is also in private collections throughout the U.S.