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Artist
Biography
Art
and nature have always been a passion for Linda
Tuma Robertson. She won her first blue ribbon
for painting in kindergarten. Since that
time she has received numerous awards and
honors. Recently, she was presented with
the Cynthia Post Buyer's Choice Award at
the Small Works Great Wonders winter sale
held at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage
Museum.
Linda credits her parents for giving her the
opportunity to develop her art talent. At
the
age of nine, she studied oil painting with
the late John Shelby Metcalf, a prominent Oklahoma
oil
painter, and it immediately became her favorite
medium She also revers the landscape and the
ever changing skies. her family trips west
and throughout her native state of Oklahoma
helped develop this awareness of nature. These
subjects with their many moods created by the
atmosphere and light inspire her paintings.
By the time the artist was twenty, her work
had been displayed at the Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C., the Kerr Museum, the Oklahoma
Museum of Art, and the Oklahoma Art Center.
Her painting "Fall in the Kiamichis"
was reproduced in the Bell Telephone pamphlet
"Telephone Talk."
In the 1970's marriage and two children temporarily
interrupted her career. Once her family became
independent, she returned to her other love,
art. Since 1998, the artist has participated
in the Gilcrease Museum's American Art in Miniature
Show. Her work was also chosen for several
top 100 Arts for the Parks competitions and
Oil Painters of America national shows. Recently,
the Oklahoma State Senate Historical Preservation
Fund commissioned her to create a 5-foot-by-7-foot
painting of Arcadia's round barn which will
join a 5-foot-by-7-foot painting by the artist
already hanging in the Capitol. Additionally,
she participates in Western Visions at the
National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson,
Wyoming and the CM Russell Art Auction and
Masters in Miniature at the CM Russell Museum
in Great Falls, Montana. Recently, Linda was
invited to show three paintings at the new
Collector's Reserve Show at the Gilcrease Museum.
The artist has been featured in Southwest Art
and Western Art Collector magazines.
The artist's style has been described as a combination
of realism and impressionism. Her love and reverence
for the land inspires her to record the countryside
and the vanishing wilderness of this country.
Linda comments, "My desire is to paint
a landscape reflecting my love for nature. I
want the viewer to feel my emotion and inspiration
which led me to paint the scene."
Public
and Private Collections
Love's Country Stores Corporate Office
Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce
Kerr Foundation
Sonic Corporate Office
Oklahoma Publishing Company
Oklahoma State Capitol
Ritz Carlton Beach Club (Sarasota, Florida)
Cornell University (New York)
Gaillardia Golf & Country Club
WW Steel Corporation Corporate Office
General and Mrs. Tommy Franks
Art
Shows (Juried & Invitational):
Kirkpatrick
Center (Oklahoma City, OK)
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington
D.C.)
Oklahoma Museum of Art (Oklahoma City, OK)
Kerr Museum (Poteau, OK)
2004 Festival of the Arts Poster Artist (Oklahoma
City, OK)
Panhandle Plains Historical Center (Canyon, Texas)
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum (Small
Works Great Wonders Art Sale)
Kimball Arts Center (Parks City, Utah)
Exhibition of Emerging Artists (Jackson Hole,
Wyoming)
One Artist Shows 2008 (Howell Gallery, Oklahoma
City, OK and Astoria Gallery, Jackson, WY)
Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa, OK)
Top 200 Arts for the Parks Exhibition 2000, 2001
Top 100 Arts for the Parks Exhibition
2001, 2004
National Museum of Wildlife Art - Western Visions
Show (Jackson, WY)
National Western Art Foundation's "The Night
of Artists" (San Antonio, TX)
Mountain Oyster Club Western Art Show 2008 (Tucson,
AZ)
CM Russell Art Auction - CM Russell Museum (Great
Falls, MT)
"Masters in Miniature" - CM Russell Museum (Great
Falls, MT)
Best of Show Awards
Arts Festival 1991 (Senator Kelly Haney, Judge)
Duncan Arts Festival 2000
Wild Plum Ranch Art Award
White Dome Gallery Show - People's Choice Award
1996 & 1998 (Chickasha, OK)
Howell Gallery Fall Show - People's Choice Award
2004
Cynthia Post Memorial Buyer's Choice Award -
2009 Small Works Great Wonders Show (National
Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City,
OK)
Organizations
Oil
Painters of America
Oklahoma Art Guild
Publications
The Art of the American West (Rockport Publishers)
1999
Southwest Art Magazine (February 2010)
Oklahoma (Magazine of the Oklahoma Heritage Association)
2004
Western Art Collector Magazine (June 2010, July
2009, June 2009)
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