Robert Yarber

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Robert Yarber (born Dallas, Texas, 1948) is an American painter and Distinguished Professor of Art at Pennsylvania State University. He received a BFA from Cooper Union in 1971, and an MFA from Louisiana State University in 1973.

In the spring 2006 He was involved in a controversy over censoring an art student's senior exhibit entitled "Portraits of Terror."

He has been represented by the Sonnabend Gallery in New York, Marella Arte Comtemporanea in Milan, Modernism Inc. in San Francisco, [1] , and other galleries in the United States and Europe.

Yarber is best known for a series of paintings of flying and falling figures seen above cityscapes viewed at night. The main ideas of Yarber's work revolve around "combining antiquity with modernism."