I have a drawing framed piece of art that notes the artist Robert Gates?
October 22nd, 2009 Posted by: admin
I looks like a charcoal drawing titled Squall. It notes it is a proof. The artist is local to DC, but I thought I might be able to find out more information re: value, history, is there the final somewhere?
By: t-bone
By: t-bone
Tags: Artist Robert, Charcoal, Value History
October 25th, 2009 at 02:39
Hi! There is quite a lot of biographical data about your artist but not a lot of artwork to be seen. I found no mention of “Squall,” and only found two watercolors for sale on Ebay which may give you some frame of reference. He does have works secured in the Smithsonian Archives as well as several museums listed below. That being said, you can contact the Smithsonian’s free service for American art called” Joan of Art” (http://americanart.si.edu/search/search_ajoa.cfm) which will research the artwork (as you have a “proof,” it sounds like a lithograph) for you. I hope this helps.
Robert Franklin Gates (1906-1982) was an influential artist and teacher in Washington for over 35 years. He first moved to Washington in 1931, working with the Treasury Department, Section of Fine Arts and teaching at the Phillips Collection’s Studio House. In 1946 after service in WW II, Gates joined the faculty here at American University where he taught for 30 years. He showed at Jefferson Place, Franz Bader, and Jack Rasmussen galleries in DC, and exhibited his work at The National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and The Art Institute of Chicago. Gates work is also included in the collections of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Phillips Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Baltimore Museum of Art, among others.
October 26th, 2009 at 18:10
I have a water color by Robert Franklin Gates signed and dated 1932. I also am trying to fine out about the value of this piece. If you find out something please let me know.
Thanks,
chuck