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Bob Ekelund is a
Texas native who moved to Auburn, Alabama in 1977 and
retired as Eminent Scholar in Economics in 2003.
He has had a lifelong love of art, including painting,
art collecting and art history. In the 1980s, Ekelund
took up watercolor and began to create woodcuts and
linocut prints. Although largely self-taught, he studied
watercolor and drawing at Auburn. His painting interests
include both still life and landscape in oil, pastel and
water-based media. His subject matter takes inspiration
from the post-Impressionist works of Cezanne and from
the modernist landscapes of New Mexico. Annual treks to
Taos, New Mexico have, in particular, been the subject
of drawing and painting in all media. He has rendered
the Spanish missions of Texas and the Southwest in a
number of media and styles and is at work on drawings
and paintings related to a lengthy European tour. |
In 2001, 2002 and 2005 Ekelund had
one-person shows in the Auburn area and he has exhibited in
venues in Alabama and elsewhere. He is represented by the
Rattling Gourd Gallery (www.rattlinggourdgallery.com) in
Loachapoka, Alabama and the Carlisle gallery (www.carlislegallery.com)
in Auburn. He is the author of The Persistence of Myth and
Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Mexican Art (with Catherine Walsh)
and is represented in private and public collections in the
United States, Asia and the Middle East.
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