Robert Liberace

Robert Liberace (b. January 2, 1967 in Pomona, New York) is an American realist artist. He attended the George Washington University from which he received both his bachelor of liberal arts and masters of fine arts degrees.^[1] There he was also a recipient of a Morris Louis scholarship.^[2]

Accomplished in both sculpture and painting, as a portraitist his commissioned subjects have included former president George H.W Bush, ambassador Sol Linowitz, the National Symphony Orchestra violinist Steven Honigberg and General Wallace M. Greene, the last of which resides in the Vermont State House. His sculptural commissions include the Our Lady of Vailankanni, marble and the terracotta rendering of Mother Teresa for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, in Washington, DC. He has been proclaimed by the "Art Renewal Center" to be one of some odd several score, of current "accredited", "living masters".^[3] and in 2003 the National portrait society awarded him their grand prize.^[4]

Liberace's work has been written about extensively by M. Stephen Dougherty the executive editor of American Artist magazine. He is represented by the John Pence gallery in San Francisco, the Legacy gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona,^[5] and the M gallery in Charleston, South Carolina. He teaches at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia founded and headed by the renowned painter Nelson Shanks^[6] and the Art League in Alexandria, Virginia, and also holds painting and sculpture workshops in locations throughout the United States and abroad. The artist resides in Vienna, Virginia with his wife the illustrator and arist Lina Liberace and their two daughters. He is distantly related to the famed pianist Liberace.

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• The artist's website-