Robert gribbroek artist complete biography

A painter, illustrator and commercial art director, Robert Gribbroek  spent the prime of his career in Southern California but was a frequent visitor to Taos, New Mexico where he was a member of the Transcendental Painting Group that espoused abstract and non-objective painting.

Gribbroek was born in Rochester, New York.  He studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in the 1930s, at the University of New Mexico field school in Taos, and with Emil Bisttram at his Taos School of Art.  In the early 1930s, Gribbroek was a commercial art director in Rochester for Hutchins Advertising Company, and from 1934 through 1935, was Art Director for the Rochester Museum and Science Center.  Then he enrolled in the Art Students League in New York City, studying with Morris Kantor and Kimon Nicolaides.  He was also a student of Donald Graham at the Art Center in Los Angeles, but the date is unknown.

In 1929