Bio
When Robert Tate entered Washington University, he had no prior art training. As a freshman he was awarded first place in the all college portrait competition.
Tate 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 the National Society of Painters in Casein
and Acrylics.
Tate is now fulfilling a lifelong dream of painting for galleries, his painting
include, Native Americans, working cowboys, portraits and ballet subjects.
All of his gallery paintings are executed in oil on linen. Recently he was
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
Tate to paint portraits for articles of the top 25 Internet executives. Tate
has executed numerous portraits for the movie industry (posters) and has been
commissioned to do over 200 paintings of famous sports figures in Nascar,
baseball, basketball, football, hockey and horse racing. One of Tate’s
paintings was used as example in Shiva Casein magazine ads and another for
their color chart cover. In addition one of his oil paintings was used in
Jack Richeson’s and Company’s ad for thier Yarka canvas.
Robert Tate
5505 Corbin Avenue
Tarzana, CA. 91356-2986
818-345-6741