Robert Templeton (5/11/29 - 7/16/91)
Education
- Kansas City Art Institute - Kansas City, MO 1946 - 1949
- Art Student's League - NY, NY 1950 -1952
- Mannheim Akademie - Mannheim, Germany 1956
Travel
- Staff photographer for Stars and Stripes - Heidelberg, Germany 1952 - 1954
- Traveled and painted throughout Europe 1955, 1962, 1982, 1983, 1990, 1991
Service
- Fifth Army Signal Corps - Heidelberg, Germany 1952 - 1954
One Man Shows
- Banfer Gallery, NY, NY 1964
- "Lest We Forget...Images of the Black Civil Rights Movement" Emory University, Atlanta, GA 1986
- Anna Howard Gallery, Washington, CT 1990
One Man Shows - Posthumous
- Museum of American Political Life, Hartford, CT 1992
- Heublein, Inc., Farmington, CT 1993
- National Tour of Historically Black Colleges 1993-1994
- US House of Representatives Rotunda Building, Washington, DC 1994
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL 1994
- Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, CT 2002
- Guerrera Gallery at the Golden Age of Trucking Museum, Middlebury, CT, 2004
Group Exhibitions
- New York City Center Gallery, NY, NY 1959
- Audubon Artist Exhibition, National Academy, NY, NY 1959
- Fourteenth Mid-American Annual, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, MO 1964
- Annual Iowa Artist Exhibition, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA 1964
- Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery "If elected...", Washington, DC 1973
Commissions
- Time Magazine Cover Story: Mayor Sam Yorty 1966
- Time Magazine Cover Story: Detroit Riots 1967
- Time Magazine Cover Story: Governor George Romney 1967
- Ralph McGill, Editor and Columnist - Atlanta Constitution 1968
- Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, for the National Portrait Gallery 1970
- Connecticut Governor John Dempsey - Official Portrait 1971
- Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen 1974
- Congressman Melvin Price, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee 1976
- Good Housekeeping - President and Rosalynn Carter 1977
- General Bernard Rogers, NATO Commander-in-Chief
- Treasury Secretary Donald Regan 1982
- Mrs. Donald Regan 1982
- Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland - for London Records
- President Jimmy Carter - for the Georgia State Senate
- President Jimmy Carter - for the Hall of Presidents, The Smithsonian - National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
- Roger Birk, Chairman of Merrill Lynch
- Dr. Harry Prystowsky, Dean of the College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University
- Harry Gray, CEO of United Technologies
- Hicks Waldron, CEO of Heublein Inc.
- President of World Bank A.W. (Chuck) Clausen, President of World Bank 1982 and 1986
- Jack Tarver, Publisher, Atlanta Constitution
- William Pape, Publisher, Republican American
- Harold Smith, Founder, First Federal, now Webster Financial Corp
Publications
- "If elected..." Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976
- "The Smithsonian Treasury - The Presidents" Frederick S. Voss, 1991
- "In Grateful Remembrance" Sara B. Hanan (Published by the Maryland Commission on Artistic Property)
- New York Times
- Saturday Evening Post
- TIME Magazine
- PEOPLE Magazine
- Connecticut Magazine
- Christian Science Monitor
- Who's Who in American Art
Robert Templeton's paintings are in the Connecticut State Library Museum, The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, The Sam Rayburn House Office Building (House of Representatives Collection), The Pentagon Museum, The Carter Center, and university and library collections, as well as private collections, throughout the United States.