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| First Name | RB |
| Last Name | McGrath |
| Born | 1949-09-18 |
| Country | United States |
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| Biography | |
RB McGrath
Painter
Born: Branch, St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland - 1949
Resides: Jacksonville, Arkansas
Painting Style: Eclectic: Contemporary Realism, Impressionism, Abstract
Still Life, Landscape, Abstract, Portraiture, Figurative
Media::
Leader News, AR. March 14, 2009
ARTnews, December, 2008
Leader News Publications, AR 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006
KARK 4 (NBC), Little Rock 2006
KTHV 11 (CBS), Little Rock 2007
Selected Private Collections:
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
Corporate Collections:
Central Arkansas Library System Public Collection
Performance Food Group - Little Rock, AR
First Arkansas Bank - Jacksonville, AR
JPD, City of Jacksonville - Jacksonville, AR
IBLA Foundation, New York, NY
Brief bio:
Born in 1949 in a small fishing village named Branch, in Easter Cove, St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland R B McGrath is 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 McGrath's 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 McGrath began a serious persuit as a painter in the mid 80's. McGrath's 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 in Arkansas, for whom McGrath also designed the official CID Insignia. A massive six by six foot work entitled 'Controlled Chaos' by McGrath will be installed in the new, multi-milllion dollar Ester D. Nixon Library in Jacksonville, AR in April of 2009 and McGrath's latest most recent work 'A Portrait of Salvatore Moltisanti' will be unveiled and installed at the IBLA Headquarters in New York City, following an unveiling and for Moltisanti in person in Jacksonville, AR on May 2, 2009.
A resident of the United States since 1964, McGrath now produces small, medium, and large works in oil, in a studio in Jacksonville, The current price range for McGrath works is $2,500 - $150,000. |
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