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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Armando0831, post: 22335, member: 305&quot;]You all might want to pull up a chair, cause this is my story on two paintings I have. The first one I purchased at an antique store for around $30. It was a ship on it&#039;s launching day. What got me about it, was that it had our patriotic colors draped over the front. The ship had a hull number, 1230. It was signed W.F Robinson. I got home and tried to find some info. on this artist but was striking out. All I was coming up with on the internet was a W.F Robinson who wrote some gangster books back in the 30 or so. I pretty much gave up on looking anymore. I did find out that the ship painting was of the Liberty Ship, Francis Preston Blair on it&#039;s launching day, that was confirmed by the Navy Museum. A year later or so, I was at a flea market and seen this well framed original oil painting of a landscape. I looked on the back and what do you know, the name, Warren F. Robinson. The hand writing and writing of the date match perfectly. I paid $10 for that painting. On the reverse, it also stated where the painting was done, Athens, GA, home of UGA. I sent some emails to the Arts Museum at UGA but they never got back with me. I had posted a blog somewhere and about a month later, I received an email from a lady that had a water color painting from the same artist. We both searched and searched for info. Again, we were only coming up with that dang author again. Eventually, we did find what we were looking for. He had graduated UGA with a BA in Fine Arts. He went on to teaching as a professor at different colleges. He held Head of Art Department positions at various colleges. His last position was at Gettysburg College as Head of Fine Arts Department. He passed away in his early 40s. We found out that he had many private art shows, his works are in many museums and private collections. To name one museum, The Smithsonian. He is in the Who of Who of the East in arts. He has a lot of creditials. The way we found out about that info, well, it was that dang author we couldn&#039;t shake. Yes, he was an author too. There was a link stating that he taught at Gettysburg, on old newspapers online about his death at Gettysburg, that&#039;s how we found his BA from Athens, GA. It was a long process to find this all out but it gave my paintings a face and undoubtly a higher value. I love researching info, sometimes. These two paintings were done when he was still in college. [ATTACH=full]5477[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]5478[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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