When Robert Tanenbaum entered Washington University in St. Louis, he
had no prior art training. As a freshman he was awarded first place in the all
college portrait competition.
Tanenbaum is a Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society;
one of 22 members out of 1300 members to be nationally certified by The
American Portrait Society; one of only 350 that has been elected as an
Artist member of the California Art Club and an artist member of National
Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic.
Tanenbaum is fulfilling a lifelong dream of painting for galleries, his painting
include, Native Americans , working cowboys, portraits and contemporary
subjects.
All of his gallery painting are now executed in oil on linen. He is currently
showing his work in galleries in Sedona, Arizona; New York, New York;
and Fairview, New Jersey. Recently he was greatly honored when he was made
a blood brother of the Cherokee Nation.
A partial list of his corporate portraits include the previous three CEO’s of
United Parcel Service (UPS), two for Texaco Oil, nine for Southern
California Edison; six of which were posthumous, also a life-size full length
posthumous painting of Howard Hughes for Hughes Aircraft, Wout van
Bavel of Holland, Gary Jordan on his horse ‘Socks’ in front of
Pikes Peak, Colorado, Don Raich with his 1963 Rolls Royce, F.
Katiyama, past president of Nissan Motors USA, Frederick R.
Weisman for the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation and authors Will
and Ariel Durant. The computer magazine Reseller News commissioned
Tanenbaum to paint portraits for articles of the top 25 Internet executives.
The John Wayne family and The Franklin Mint commissioned Tanenbaum
to paint 24 portraits of JW’s life. He has also painted many portraits
of women, children and other clients with their horses.
Tanenbaum has executed numerous portraits for the movie industry and has
been commissioned to do over 200 paintings of famous sports figures in
Nascar, baseball, basketball, football, hockey and horse racing. For sports
art he is represented by Quality Collectibles.
In the spring of 2001 American Artist’s Water Color magazine had an article
depicting 16 of his casein painting. In 2002 International Artist Magazine had
a ten page article on his color sketches and oil paintings. One of
Tanenbaum's paintings was used as example in Shiva Casein magazine ads and
another for their color chart cover. Another of his oil paintings was used
in Jack Richeson’s and Company ad for his Yarka canvas.
