Robert Stein

Robert Stein III began his art career getting busted by his third grade elementary school teacher for selling pencil drawings of dragons to his classmates. It wasn't that there was anything particularly wrong with dragons, or pencil drawings, but it was the fact that I was selling them. These drawings were going for the amazingly low low price of three cents, which coincidently was the going rate for school milk. Mothers were outraged that I was manipulating their nose drippy offspring out of their daily bovine nutritional intake, and they employed my teacher as their agent of retribution.

It took several years of living in Morocco, Spain and Germany, studying Art History and drawing/painting on location to recover from that early trauma.

I graduated from collage with a BFA in Illustration before computers were readily available for the graphic arts. Hired out of school as Lead Illustrator for Banana Republic, I was a significant contributor to the look and feel of their hand painted catalog in the mid ‘80’s, and we advanced it to the level of Award Winning “Coffee Table Catalogue” whose client address value was second only to Sacks Fifth Avenue’s.

Entering the digital realm was more of an investment in the future, as t...

Academy of Art Univ: SF, California '83 ...BFA in Illustration
University Of Maryland: Munich GDR '80 ...Art History Location Studies
Calif. Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA '78 …Fine Art Major

2014 / 4 : Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Seattle WA
2014 / 2 : "Hair" Exhibition: LeSo Gallery, Toledo OH
2013 / 6 : "Less > More" Exhibition: St John's College, Annapolis MD
2013 / 2 : 87th Annual Print Center International Competition
1987 / 6 : Air Force Art Collection .........(research.archives.gov/id/6436015)
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