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) |
