Hi Patty0,
Ed Roebuck's website was online from 1998 to 2000 but has been off the
air since October of 2000. However, I was able to find an archived
copy of his site.
Rather than send you to that site, which takes FOREVER to load (even
via my high-speed cable access) I’ll copy and paste the information
here. Everything below is directly quoted from the site. :
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ED ROEBUCK - BIOGRAPHY –
I first became interested in art during high school in Blackwater,
Virginia where there was nothing else to do but draw. After three
years in the Marine Corps, I came home and met my wife, Gloria, who
started showing my art while I applied to art schools. I was accepted
at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia.
I saw more art just walking to class than I had ever seen. Exciting
things were happening in art then. Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns were
doing their thing; pop art had just started popping, and the Beatles
had just arrived. It was the early 60s! The Philadelphia Museum and
the Academy had up-to-date shows, and at every show an Art Giant took
another new stride. The Academy is the oldest art school in the
country; however, its instructors were contemporary. One teacher I
appreciate is Maurice Blackburn. From rural Blackwater through the
Marine Corps, I only drew with pencils, so the brushes he introduced
to me were foreign objects. Mr. Blackburn taught me how to use rags,
fingers, and the other end of the brush to start a painting by wiping
through a wash. This technique suited me, and I easily adapted it to
powdered graphite later on.
Soon after art school, my wife and I had a family to support;
consequently, I became a good carpenter, still drawing at night and on
weekends. In 1970 in Virginia, a horizontal drawing I did of my
parents on a door won "Best in Show" over 500 other artists, mostly
painters. After that, my work was exibited along side of paintings (an
unusual accomplishment at that time,) and I was accepted in shows from
South Carolina to Washington D.C.
Overview:
Princess Anne High School -lettered in wrestling
USMC 3 years - awarded twice for bravery
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts - merit scholarship
1970 Best of Show, Virginia Beach Boardwalk Art show
Taught Watercolor for Walter Chrysler Museum
Received national press coverage for "X" protest
Shows:
Co-op Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
One Man Show in Sam Raburn Building, Washington, DC
One Man Show in Raccu Gallery, Washington, DC
One Man Show in Flavin Gallery, Washington, DC
Group Show Columbia Museum of Fine Art, Columbia, SC
One Man Show Holden School of Art, Charlottesville, VA
One Man Show Swift Creek Mill, Richmond, VA
One Man Show Ghent Gallery, Norfolk, VA
One Man Show Studio Gallery, Virginia Beach, VA
One Man Show Military Circle Gallery, Norfolk, VA
CONTACT INFORMATION
The prints available here are photographic prints of archival quality.
They will not fade or yellow. Limited editions of 500 each, signed and
numbered by the artist. If you have any questions, please contact
Gloria Roebuck at (757)-583-XXXX
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I have removed the phone number above because it is no longer
registered to Ed Roebuck. However, you can see that he is/was located
in Norfolk VA. You might check phone directories for Norfolk and
Virginia Beach areas.
Unfortunately, when the website was archived, most of the pictures
were removed from it. They did however leave the thumbnail pictures.
What I have done is copied some of those thumbnails to a private
directory so that you can see them. They are really tiny so I’m not
sure how useful they’ll be, but take a look:
SEED PLANTERS
http://www.lucidmatrix.com/uploads/Roebcuk - Seed Planters.bmp
BLUE DELIGHT
http://www.lucidmatrix.com/uploads/Roebuck - Blue Delight.bmp
ON THE CLOCK
http://www.lucidmatrix.com/uploads/Roebuck - On the clock.bmp
REAL ESTATE
http://www.lucidmatrix.com/uploads/Roebuck - realestate.bmp
** Please note that these pictures will only be available on the above
site for 30 days.
What you might do at this point is contact any of the above Galleries
where he exhibited to see if they have contact information for Mr.
Roebuck. I also found this gallery which appears to be a central
repository for Virginia Beach area artists. You could contact them:
http://www.theartistsgallery.org/About_Us!!.htm
Finally, here are the links to the archived sites for Ed Roebuck. If
you have the time (and the patience), take a look through them. As I
said, they take forever to load. I checked 3 of them (Dec 7, 1998, Apr
27, 1999, Oct 2, 2000) and found no more useful information than what
I’ve supplied here. I remind you that the phone number on those sites
is no longer in Ed Roebuck’s name.
LIST OF ALL WEBSITES ARCHIVED FOR EDROEBUCK.COM
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.edroebuck.com/
So, that should do it. I’d say, if this man is around you’ll be able
to track him down with the information I’ve supplied here.
Good luck to you!
--K~
Search strategy: After I saw robw’s comment, I used the Internet
Archive Wayback machine to find the archived sites.
http://webdev.archive.org/ |
