Robert Burkert – Vintage Expressionist Abstract Landscape Screenprint, Signed (Unique Work)

Robert Burkert – Vintage Expressionist Abstract Landscape Screenprint, Signed (Unique Work). Multi layer color screenprint entitled ‘May Light’. The work is titled and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower right corner, with an “impressit” (IMP), indicating that the artist printed this work himself. In good condition with wear consistent with age. Dog eared corners. Please refer to photos for details.

Size: 37.5 x 23.5 in

Wisconsin artist and print-maker Robert Burkert was born in 1930 in Racine, Wisconsin. His artistic education began with scholarship classes at the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts in Racine where he was taught by Sylvester and Cherry B. Jerry, the former having been the first director of the Wustum Museum. His initial career involved cartooning for the Chicago Tribune and ghost drawing for Western Publishing. He graduated with a BS in drawing, painting, and printmaking from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1952 and followed up with his MS degree in 1955.

He exhibited at the Bradley Galleries, F.F.A. Galleries, and BergstromArt Center in 1971 and with a retrospective on his career at the UWM Fine Arts Gallery in 1994 after his retirement. His works can be found in the the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Tate Gallery, London, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Denver Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.