Art By Bob Byerley
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Bob Byerley
Bob Byerley (1941- ), spent his entire childhood in Kansas City, Missouri. He was an only child. His mother was a piano teacher and began teaching Bob to play at the age of five: When he was six years old he performed his first one man concert. Throughout his childhood, he continued his musical education. He also showed a strong interest in drawing. His musical endeavors were enthusiastically encouraged, his drawing interests, not.
After high school, Bob decided to enter college, not as a music major, but as a pre-med student. He attended the University of Missouri at Columbia and in his junior year he was required to take three credit hours of fine arts for his pre med degree. He signed up for a three hour Introduction to Art class and when he walked into the art building, saw the paintings, and smelled the turpentine, he knew he was home. He loved the art and after one semester, made the hardest phone call to his parents that he had ever had to make; Mom, Dad, Ive decided not to be a doctor, Im going to be an artist! Silence----------.
Bob went on to receive his Bachelors and his Masters Degree in Art from University of Missouri at Columbia. After graduating he taught painting and drawing at the University and also at Missouri Western College in St. Joseph, Missouri.
At the age of thirty, Bob quit teaching and began painting full time. His primary focus, for many years was still-life; still-lives rendered in a very detailed, fool-the-eye realistic style. In the late 1980's he began to paint children as the center of interest in his work and in that particular genre, he found success. Bob is now internationally known for his realistic portrayals of children in nostalgic settings; settings that reflect his own kinder and gentler childhood.
He and his wife Alice, have four grown children and seven grandchildren. Alice is their business manager and a very fine painter in her own right. They now live in Lees Summit, Missouri. Bobs work is represented in many fine collections and his work
can be seen in thousands of galleries throughout the world.
The Dreamers
Roy Baker, Jimmy Tanner, Calvin Sparks and Curtis Thornberry sat on the back porch and planned their summer. Last year we had the lemonade stand but we drank up all the lemonade said Curtis. This year we got to make us some real money! They sat and thought.
Golf, said Jimmy. Look at this farmyard, weve got enough room here to actually build a golf course, charge money and get rich all in one summer!
And the four dreamers built a golf course, and on opening day, golfers came; the greatest golfers of all time came and the word spread and these champions of the greens friends came and by September the four boys were rich and paid off the mortgage on Roys parents farm and bought new bicycles for everybody in their class.
Yeah, said Calvin, Well build a golf course.
Enhanced Giclee Canvas
Image Size 30" X 24"
SN150
$1,150
The Health Clinik
Mayville is a wonderful place in which to live. It has a city park with two baseball diamonds and it boasts a four bay carwash with complimentary vacuums. It has a retirement home, a pizza parlor, a beauty shop, a bank with a drive up window and opening June first, a health clinik. Mayor Art Dunbar tells us that the clinik will be open every day until fall, when the resident doctors and nurses will have to go back to school to continue their advanced education in their various medical specialties.
Help wanted: 2 pediatrishuns, good bedside manners.
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Junk Yard Band
"Just outside our little town, about a half a mile west beyond the railroad tracks, sat our county dump, or as Mayor Cecil Potts called it The "Mayville Refuse Depository Site." To all us kids it was "the junk yard" and it was the never ending inspiration for dozens of summer projects. Its where we found the wheels for the blue lightning racer, the shingles for the roof of our "no girls allowed" clubhouse, the umbrella for our lemonade stand and where, on an early August morning, we struck up the first chords from the Mayville Junk Yard Band."
Original Size: 32"x 40"
30" X 24" Enhanced Ciclee Canvas
Signed & Numbered $1,150
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