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Robert Taylor Prints
ROBERT TAYLOR
The name Robert Taylor has been synonymous with aviation art over a quarter of a century. His paintings of aircraft, more than those of any other artist, have helped popularize a genre which at the start of this remarkable artist's career had little recognition in the world of fine art. When he burst upon the scene in the mid-1970s his vibrant, expansive approach to the subject was a revelation. His paintings immediately caught the imagination of enthusiasts and collectors alike . He became an instant success.
As a boy, Robert seemed always to have a pencil in his hand. Aware of his natural gift from an early age, he never considered a career beyond art, and with unwavering focus, set out to achieve his goal. Leaving school at fifteen, he has never worked outside the world of art. After two years at the Bath School of Art he landed a job as an apprentice picture framer with an art gallery in Bath, the city where Robert has lived and worked all his life. Already competent with water-colors the young apprentice took every opportunity to study the works of other artists and, after trying his hand at oils, quickly determined he could paint to the same standard as much of the art it was his job to frame.
Soon the gallery was selling his paintings, and the owner, recognizing Robert's talent, promoted him to the busy picture-restoring department. Here, he repaired and restored all manner of paintings and drawings, the expertise he developed becoming the foundation of his career as a professional artist. Picture restoration is an exacting skill, requiring the ability to emulate the techniques of other painters so as to render the damaged area of the work undetectable. After a decade of diligent application, Robert became one of the most capable picture restorers outside London. Today he attributes his versatility to the years he spent painstakingly working on the paintings of others artists.
After fifteen years at the gallery, by chance he was introduced to Pat Barnard, whose military publishing business happened also to be located in the city of Bath. When offered the chance to become a full-time painter, Robert leapt at the opportunity. Within a few months of becoming a professional artist, he saw his first works in print. The Military Gallery has published every print reproduced from Robert's paintings ever since.
Robert's early career was devoted to maritime paintings, and he achieved early success with his prints of naval subjects, one of his admirers being Lord Louis Mountbatten. He exhibited successfully at the Royal Society of Marine Artists in London and soon his popularity attracted the attention of the media. Following a major feature on his work in a leading national daily newspaper he was invited to appear in a BBC Television program. This led to a string of commissions for the Fleet Air Arm Museum who, understandably, wanted aircraft in their maritime paintings. It was the start of Robert's career as an aviation artist.
Fascinated since childhood by the big, powerful machines that man has invented, switching from one type of 'hardware' to another has never troubled him. Being an artist of the 'old school', Robert tackled the subject of painting aircraft with the same gusto as with his large, action-packed maritime pictures - big compositions supported by powerful and dramatic skies, painted on large canvases. It was a formula new to the aviation art genre, at the time not used to such sweeping canvases, but one that came naturally to an artist whose approach appeared to have origins in an earlier classical period.
Robert's aviation paintings are instantly recognizable. He somehow manages to convey all the technical detail of aviation in a traditional and painterly style, reminiscent of the Old Masters. With uncanny ability, he is able to recreate scenes from the past with a carefully rehearsed realism that few other artists ever manage to achieve. This is partly due to his prodigious research but also his attention to detail: Not for him shiny new factory-fresh aircraft looking like museum specimens. His trade mark, flying machines that are battle-scarred, worse for wear, with dings down the fuselage, chips and dents along the leading edges of wings, oil stains trailing from engine cowlings, paintwork faded with dust and grime; his planes are real!
Robert's aviation works have drawn crowds in the international arena since the early 1980s. He has exhibited throughout the US and Canada, Australia, Japan and in Europe. His one-man exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC was hailed as the most popular art exhibition ever held there. His paintings hang in many of the world's great aviation museums, adorn boardrooms, offices and homes, and his limited edition prints are avidly collected all around the world.
A family man with strong Christian values, Robert devotes most of what little spare time he has to his home life. Married to Mary for thirty five years, they have five children, all now grown up. Neither fame nor fortune has turned his head. He is the same easy-going, gentle character he was when setting out on his painting career all those years ago, but now with a confidence that comes with the knowledge that he has mastered his profession.
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Air Strike by Robert Taylor
Original price $155.00 - Original price $620.00Original price$155.00 - $620.00$155.00 - $620.00Current price $155.00OVER WEST FALKLAND Flying from HMS Invincible, 801 Naval Air C.O. ‘Sharkey’ Ward of the Fleet Air Arm engages in a ferocious dogfight during the B...
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American Eagles by Robert Taylor
Original price $320.00 - Original price $785.00Original price$320.00 - $785.00$320.00 - $785.00Current price $320.00One of World War Two’s best known P-51 Mustangs, Glamorous Glen III, flown by one of the aviation’s best known pilots, Chuck Yeager, together with ...
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Bringing The Peacemaker Home By Robert Taylor
Original price $350.00 - Original price $815.00Original price$350.00 - $815.00$350.00 - $815.00Current price $350.00A limited edition to commemorate the 8th Air Force bombers of World War II, and their fighter escorts. Damaged by Fw190s during a raid to Leipzig ...
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Clearing Skies By Robert Taylor
Original price $275.00 - Original price $1,035.00Original price$275.00 - $1,035.00$275.00 - $1,035.00Current price $275.00THE WORLD’S PREMIER AVIATION ARTIST PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE AMERICAN BOMBER CREWS OF THE US 8th AIR FORCE The winter of 1944 / 45 wasn’t the coldest ev...
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Eagles On The Rampage By Robert Taylor
Original price $320.00 - Original price $1,030.00Original price$320.00 - $1,030.00$320.00 - $1,030.00Current price $320.00Dominating the skies over Germany, P-51s of the 4th Fighter Group – The Eagles - sweep across the cloud tops, their pilots scanning the distant h...
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Flying Tigers - The Stuff Of Legend By Robert Taylor
Original price $320.00 - Original price $990.00Original price$320.00 - $990.00$320.00 - $990.00Current price $320.00P-40's of the AVG Flying Tigers 3rd Pursuit Squadron - Hell’s Angels - deliver a deadly strafing attack on a Japanese forward air-base in China, s...
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Okinawa By Robert Taylor
Original price $325.00 - Original price $985.00Original price$325.00 - $985.00$325.00 - $985.00Current price $325.00TOWARDS THE BITTER ENDFlying from USS Bunker Hill, F4U Corsairs from VMF-221 assault Japanese positions defending the island of Okinawa, April 1945...
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Phantom Fury By Robert Taylor
Original price $320.00 - Original price $785.00Original price$320.00 - $785.00$320.00 - $785.00Current price $320.00The biggest, fastest, most powerful fighter of its day, the McDonnell Phantom was an awesome war machine that came to dominate aerial combat for o...
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Rolling Thunder By Robert Taylor
Original price $320.00 - Original price $770.00Original price$320.00 - $770.00$320.00 - $770.00Current price $320.00..I led that mission as I wanted to, ignoring all details of altitude, airspeed, and heading given to me by some administrator who knew nothing of ...
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Strike Force by Robert Taylor
Original price $320.00 - Original price $1,030.00Original price$320.00 - $1,030.00$320.00 - $1,030.00Current price $320.00– Operation Opera – In 1977 Israeli Intelligence received a disturbing report; Iraq, under its dictator Saddam Hussein, had started the constructi...
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