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20″ x 27″ Pop-Art acrylic on artist board in fine condition. This painting will pique your imagination and let you tell your own story. The buyer pays for shipping.
Robert “Bob” Auth considered himself a “producer” of fine art; indeed, when viewing his body of work, one might rightly assess him as prolific.
With natural talent and skills, Bob Auth was prolific in his life journey, aiming to express his passions, personal interests and unique edgy style in widely diverse media. Acrylic paintings of pop-art reflective surfaces, pen-and-ink lithographs of grizzled mountain men and the American West, and symbolic paper maché sculptures of historic periods in American history are a few of the media to which he applied his unique talent and style.
Robert Auth was born on October 27, 1926, in Bloomington, Illinois. At age 17, he left school to join the U.S. Navy, where he served aboard a naval destroyer during World War II. After receiving an honorable discharge, he resumed his education and received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1952.
During his lifetime, Bob received many honors and awards, including numerous commendations from the Mayor’s and Governor’s offices for working with handicapped programs; First Idaho Invitational Traveling Exhibit; Rick’s College Purchase Award; Artist of the Year for Outstanding Contribution to Art in the Community; National Arts Education Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession of Education; Governor of Idaho Award for Excellence in the Arts; and The Idaho Statesman Distinguished Citizen. He also received the Phi Delta Kappa’s Annual Friend of Education Award, the Idaho Historical Society Honorary Curator of Military History, and the Ee-Da-How-Long Rifles, Inc. Outstanding Service Award.
In 1983, Bob’s work was selected for the Smithsonian Institute’s exhibit, “Sawtooths and Other Ranges of the Imagination”, showcasing Idaho artists. His work was also included in the Smithsonian Institute’s Postal Museum Exhibit’s permanent collection.
It was the fall of 2010 when Robert Auth found out he had Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease or ALS. And while this was ultimately a death sentence for the longtime Boise artist and educator, it was also the driving force behind his biography, Francie’s Camera: The Art and Stories of Robert Auth. “Like planting a tree, fathering a child, building a house–I want to leave some evidence of my being here,” wrote Auth.
Bob Auth died in 2011 in Yellow Pine, Idaho
