Robert Liberace

Robert Liberace (born January 2, 1967 in Pomona, New York) is an American realist artist. He attended the George Washington University, from which he received both his bachelor of liberal arts and masters of fine arts degrees.[1] There he was also a recipient of a Morris Louis scholarship.[2] Among his teachers was the painter Frank Wright, who he credits with having instilled into him a love of the old masters.[3]

Accomplished in both sculpture and painting, as a portraitist his commissioned subjects have included the 41st President of the United States George H.W Bush, ambassador Sol Linowitz, former United States National Portrait Gallery director Marc Pachter,[4] the National Symphony Orchestra cellist Steven Honigberg, the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital patron Farid Srour[5] and General Wallace M. Greene, the last of which resides in the Vermont State House. His sculptural commissions include the Our Lady of Vailankanni in marble, and the terracotta rendering of Mother Teresa for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, in Washington, DC. He has been proclaimed by the Art Renewal Center to be one of several score of current "accredited", "living masters".[6] In 2003 the National Portrait Society awarded him their grand prize.[7]

Liberace's work has been written about extensively by M. Stephen Dougherty, the executive editor of American Artist magazine. He is represented by the Principle Gallery in Alexandria, VA and Charleston, South Carolina,[8] the John Pence gallery in San Francisco, and the Legacy gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona[9] He teaches at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia, which was founded and headed by the late renowned painter Nelson Shanks,[10] and the Art League in Alexandria, Virginia. He also holds painting and sculpture workshops in locations throughout the United States and abroad.

On August 27, 2020, in honor of "World Day of Figurative Drawing", he is scheduled to in a three hour worldwide video confrencing room, under the aegis of the Portrait Society of America, attempt to set a world record for the largest online figure drawing lesson ever conducted, with upwards of 10,000 participants attending his webinar, and thus enter the Guinness Book.[11][12]

Robert Liberace resides in Vienna, Virginia with his wife, the illustrator and artist Lina Liberace, and their two daughters. He is distantly related to the famed pianist Liberace.

His mother is the poet Maire Liberace whose second book of verse "Lament in a Minor Key" was named "Book of the Year" by the Rockland County Library Associatoon for 2019. [13][14]

References
  1. "Rob Liberace - Artist, Fine Art, Auction Records, Prices, Biography for Rob (Robert) Liberace". Askart.com. 2007-04-14. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
  2. "Artist Information for Robert Liberace". artrenewal.org. Retrieved 2013-08-26.
  3. http://www.robertliberace.com/Americanartistarticle/americanartistarticle.htm
  4. "PROFILE | Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery News Spring/Summer 2007" (PDF). 8 August 2007. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  5. http://www.robertliberace.com/portraitsOil/01.htm
  6. "Art Renewal Center Museum™ Artist Information for Robert Liberace". artrenewal.org. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  7. "Robert Liberace - The Art League - Alexandria, VA". theartleague.org. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  8. http://www.principlegallery.com/alexandria/artists-page?field_artist_target_id=1399&nid=1399
  9. "Robert Liberace at The Legacy Gallery. The Legacy Gallery has specialized in paintings and sculptures in a wide variety of subject matter, including western art, figurative, wildlife art, still-life, deceased American artists and landscape". Archived from the original on 2013-03-01. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  10. "Instructor Rob Liberace". studioincamminati.org. Retrieved 2013-08-26.
  11. https://www.portraitsociety.org/worldwide-drawing-the-figure
  12. http://www.miaminiche.com/robert-liberace-the-poet-artist-who-with-the-portrait-society-of-america-will-beat-the-guinness-book-of-records-on-world-design-day-august-27-2020/?fbclid=IwAR2BkYRxAdq4eCygJHIOOWNYMipXgwAouKgnqkJXRmk0L99bfckL993NzR4
  13. http://www.colerainetimes.co.uk/news/maire-is-walking-on-water-with-launch-of-new-book-of-poems-1-7538615
  14. https://www.clachan-publishing.co.uk/apps/blog/show/46741884-congratulations-to-maire-liberace-
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