RB McGrath - Fine Artist
RB McGrath Artist. Paintings, Photography
Books: ICON - The Art of RB McGrath 170 pages, 67 full color reproductions. Written with Pierre Auguste Lambert and Micheal E. Riffel
now on sale through Blurb publishing. copy and paste this url:: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/968563
email: rbmcgrath1@aol.com
web sites: www.rbmcgrathfineart.com
http://r-b-mcgrath.artistwebsites.com/
Brief Biography:
Born: Branch, St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland
Media::
ICON - The Art of RB McGrath. RB McGrath and Pierre Lambert with Michael E. Riffel - Published 2009.
Leader News, AR. March 14, 2009
ARTnews, December, 2008
Leader News Publications, AR 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006
KATV 7 (ABC) Little Rock 2009 Saturday Daybreak Show
KARK 4 (NBC), Little Rock 2006 Feature Story
KTHV 11 (CBS), Little Rock 2007 Feature Story
The Cabot Star Herald 2009 Feature Story
The Maumelle Monitor 2009 Feature Story
Commercial commissions:
Cover art and photographs for Alan Storeygard Trio jazz CD 'Third Time's A Charm'. Released May 2nd, 2010
Selected Collections:
Dr. Alan and Paula Storeygard, Cabot, AR
Mary M. Verser, Jacksonville, AR
Theresa Everett Lewenowski - Alexandria, VA
Charles and Sherry Vanlandingham - North Little Rock, AR
Tommi Myers - North Little Rock, AR
Lou and Gloria Lewenowski - Jacksonville, AR
Robert E. and Mary Carlson - Montgomery, Alabama
Anita Bonham Cross - Little Rock, AR
The Rhine Collection - Wilmington, Delaware
Sandy German - Owosso, Michigan
The Robert Murphy and Dave Penny Collection - St. John's, Newfoundland
Selected Corporate and Public Collections:
Central Arkansas Library System Public Collection
Performance Food Group - Little Rock, AR
First Arkansas Bank - Jacksonville, AR
City of Jacksonville - Jacksonville, AR
Email: rbmcgrath1@aol.com
or: rbmcgrath@rbmcgrathfineart.com
Brief bio:
I was born in a small fishing village named Branch, in Easter Cove, St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland and I am decended from a long line of artists and glassmakers who originated from the towns of Saint-Die and Colmar in the Vosges mountains of France. The B in my name stands for Bonhomme, the original spelling of the family surname. Both Henri and Leonard Bonhomme rose to prominence as Artists in Liege, Belgium.
Drawing and painting from early childhood I began a serious persuit as a painter in the mid 80's. My first large scale work was an 8 x 10 foot mural for Northeastern University in Boston. A more recent large scale mural work is on display at the Jacksonville Police Department CID Department for whom I also designed the official CID logo. A massive six by six foot work entitled 'Controlled Chaos' which I completed in 2004 was installed in the new, multi-milllion dollar Ester D. Nixon Library in Jacksonville, AR in April of 2009 and my portrait entitled 'A Portrait of Salvatore Moltisanti' was unveiled and installed at the IBLA Headquarters in New York City, following an unveiling and presentation for Moltisanti himself in Jacksonville, AR on May 2, 2009. My current works in progress include a life size painting of President William Jefferson Clinton and individual portraits of internationally acclaimed concert pianist Anna Rutkowska-Shock of Poland, concert pianist Gloria Campaner of Italy and internationally acclaimed Suprano Adrienn Miksch of Hungary.
I have been a resident of Jacksonville, AR since 1964 where I produce small, medium, and large works in oil, in a small, private studio. I feel that my diversity of styles and subjects makes me uniquely qualified to paint for a wide range of venues and commissions and I would appreciate it if you would buy prints of my work so that I may continue to paint and pursue a career as an Artist.
