ROBERT DOUGLAS HUNTER

Robert Douglas Hunter, one of the most important of the "Boston School" painters, grounds his art in careful arrangement of familiar objects in highly sophisticated, complex, and delicate balances of line, texture, and color. Hunter works only from life, and only in natural light. Each piece represents a compositional problem which has been worked out in its own unique fashion to achieve an unwritten but primary goal: the viewer must always be led over the surface of a painting from one point to another, never frozen to a spot, by the system of linear patterns and textures and colors which the artist has created. In the last analysis, Mr. Hunter is a poet, and his paintings speak directly to some inner part of us which seeks always to balance wild beauty with serene order.

(Julian T. Baird, Ph. D.)

 

	Arrangement with Citrus Fruit and Lunarium 16" x 2 4" O/C
	Arrangement with Citrus Fruits and Lunarium 26" x 40" O/C