August Night - R. J. Roberts

A little Hopper, a little Delos Palmer, a little Dick Roberts.

Oil on canvas. 1959. Probably 18" x 24" or slightly larger

Photo says last owned by Dot Pinkney, which is Dorothy Cowles Pinkney, noted poet from Rowayton CT. Oh yeah, and my maternal Grandmother. Dot's been dead since 1973, and I don't remember seeing this in her house or since. Time to query the relatives and see if I can locate the current owner.

Comments welcome.

-Jeff

Old Light North Eastham - R. J. Roberts

Oil on canvas 1972 24" x 30"

This hung at the top of Dad's stairs at 69 Pepper Ridge road for many years. I longed for it to hang in my house. Dad said I could have it as soon as he "fixed" it.

He claimed that he had been told that the actual color of the tower of the Old Light was different from the color he used, and he wanted to repaint it to match the actual color. Of course he never got around to finding time to do that. It remains the color Dad had in his memory. This is one of his best Cape Cod landscapes.

The Red Ball

1965 Oil on canvas.

Last known owner is Joan Mary Bassaro.

I heard recently that she was sill living in Stamford. Can anyone confirm? If so, where?

Delos Palmer's Studio

I think Dad said that this early Stamford studio was bulldozed in the 70s. This may be a scarce artifact. Oil on canvas board. 1943.

Backyard at Ridgefield - Dick Roberts

Oil on canvas with palette knife from 1961.

We all lived here then, before the divorce. I think the address was around number 79 Bayberry Hill Road. (It was at the top of the circle). Lots of evergreens in the big yard.

Dick built us a child-size log cabin out back.

We watched Sputnik flyover from the side yard.

If we walked straight out the backyard through the woods, we came to the house of the man who did the Chase Manhattan commercials in the 60's - "You have a Friend at Chase Manhattan."

Self-portrait 1971

A wonderful pencil on paper self portrait from 1971. I'm not sure if this was done as a stand alone work or if it was a preliminary drawing for one of Dad's oil on canvas self-portraits. It looks pretty "finished" so it may have been for some other project.

Early Self Portrait - Richard J Roberts

Dick studied oil painting with Delos Palmer in Stamford CT in the 1940s. His early work shows the Palmer influence as in this self portrait from 1956.

This is my first post on Dick's blog. I hope to be adding all of the extant paintings and drawings in my collection as well as the ones I can find from family and friends.

If you run across this site and have something to share and can send a picture, please email me and let me know. I'd love to be able to archive Dick's work in one place for posterity.

Thanks,

Jeff