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Born in Hammond, Indiana in 1926, a graduate of Purdue University and the University of Missouri, he received formal training at the Chicago Academy of Fine art and the American Academy of Art, and worked in editorial and advertising art until he was commissioned to paint "Luke," in 1970. This was his first animal portrait and started him down the path to becoming a full-time artist. Now, Robert Abbett is regarded as one of America's contemporary masters of sporting and wildlife art. He lives and works at Oakdale, his Connecticut farm, with his wife, Marylyn. He knows the animals and their environments as well as any hunter, which is just one reason for his success in invoking his reactions in his viewers. To look at his work is to see what he saw, to feel what he felt. Not restricted to success with only one type of subject, Abbett's work is unsurpassed with gunning dogs, fly-fishing paintings, horses, western scenes and portraiture. His works include commissions for groups such as the National Horse Association as well as a portrait of actor Jimmy Stewart. He is associated with the American Artists Group, the Society of Illustrators, and the Society of Animal Artists. He has exhibited in group and one-man shows, and his work has hung alongside that of Winslow Homer, and Andrew Wyeth. He received the Salmagundi Club Gold Metal in 1973, and his work has also been shown abroad. His paintings are now in the permanent collection of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, the National Bird Dog Museum in Grand Junction, Tennessee, the Genesee Country Wildlife Museum in Mumford New York and a bronze sculpture of the Gordon Setter, "Dare", is in the collection of the American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog in St. Louis.

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Fishing on the Bitterroot

Golden Retriever Head

Irish Setter Family

Winning Point

Luke

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