2024 Event Poster
Artist: Robert Bean, Huntsville, AL
Robert Bean is a professional artist practicing for over 20 years. He has been in solo exhibitions and national exhibitions over the course of his 20+ year career. The Huntsville Museum of Art owns one of Robert's paintings in its permanent collection. Robert is inspired by the old masters and continues to be influenced by traditional artists and also movies and literature. Robert has been painting professionally for over 20 years, with his works displayed in many dignified families in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
He is a graduate with a bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing from Mississippi State University, as well as, a master's degree in Painting and Drawing from Louisiana State University. Robert enjoys teaching oil painting, watercolor, and drawing classes at the Huntsville Museum of Art. He also is a professor of art at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Robert also has seven public murals that can be viewed around the city of Huntsville.
Robert has resided in Huntsville, Alabama, for over 20 years with his wife and two children. He enjoys the beauty of Huntsville and the diversity that this city has to offer. He is from McComb, Mississippi, where he grew up on a catfish farm. Robert also enjoys sharing his knowledge with the Huntsville Museum of Art Docent Association through educational lectures to the docents on various art topics, such as the history of art and specific art movements and enhances exhibitions for the docents by lending his expert knowledge of art.