View from the Terrace
Artist
Robert Frame
(1924 - 1999)
Date1970s
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions58 x 60 in. (147.3 x 152.4 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of the Hilbert Collection
Object number2018.187
DescriptionRobert Frame's paintings are always a visitor favorite at the Hilbert Museum whenever they go on display, and it's easy to see why. This large oil painting -- showing a view looking down into a pleasant lawn set with tables and chairs, to more houses above the beach, and to a magnificent stretch of shoreline and craggy rocks near Santa Barbara -- is a good example.Frame often painted views like this -- looking out through doors or windows onto a colorful California scene. His paintings make you wish and imagine that you were there with him, taking in the same beautiful view!
Robert Frame earned his bachelor’s degree in fine art from Pomona College, where his teachers included Millard Sheets, and his master’s at Claremont College, where he studied with Henry Lee McFee. Over the next 20 years, he won more than 20 top painting prizes and a Guggenheim Fellowship, all while he was teaching at, variously, Pasadena City College, Otis Art Institute, Scripps College, the Laguna Beach School of Art and Santa Barbara City College.
Frame's art is characterized by bright colors and a strong sense of design and symmetry, and he's known for his abstract modernist works as much as for his landscapes and figurative works. Frame’s work has been shown in many museums, including LACMA, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Hilbert Museum, among others.
-Written by Mary Platt, Museum Director
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