Robert Watson Munford was an American artist, educator, and founding member of the artist group Grupo Ibiza 59 in Spain.
12 Facts About Robert Munford
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Robert Munford's artwork is in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Stadtische Galerie Wolfsburg.
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Robert Munford attended Worcester Academy and later joined the US Army Air Corps during the Second World War.
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Robert Munford worked as a freelance illustrator for Fortune Magazine, Esquire, and Harper's Magazine.
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In 1956, Robert Munford moved to the Balearic Islands in Spain, first to the island of Formentera and subsequently to the island of Ibiza.
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Robert Munford's work, La Vigie, featured in Munford's 1960 Paris show at the Galerie Lara Vincy, is an example of this period of production.
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Robert Munford's work was exhibited throughout Europe in such venues as Galerie Lara Vincy, Salon des Realites Nouvelles, Galerie Brusberg, Galerie Springer, Leicester Galleries, Galeria Ivan Spence, and Galerie Handschin.
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From 1962 to 1965, Robert Munford was involved with the Druckwerkstatt art school at the Schloss Wolfsburg.
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In 1966, Robert Munford returned to the United States to work in New York City.
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Between 1968 and 1970, Robert Munford designed stage sets for the Michael Abrams Gothic Art Theater, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Elliot Feld American Ballet Company, and the New York City Center.
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In 1971, Robert Munford joined the art faculty of the Long Island University, Southampton Campus, where he taught art for the next twenty years.
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Robert Munford died on May 28,1991, in Water Mill, Long Island, New York.