Robert C. Marsh, Jr.
306 West Main Street
Danville, VA 24541
434-797-4975
Born: June 16, 1944
Selected Exhibitions | Selected Collections | Selected Reviews
Education:
University of North Alabama, Florence, Alabama, B.S., 1967
University of Mississippi, M.F.A., 1969 (Graduate Assistant – Drawing)
Employment:
Averett University, Danville, VA, Professor of Art, 434-791-5798
Selected Exhibitions:
1973
One-Man Exhibition, Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Danville, VA.
1974
New Talent in Printmaking, Associated American Artists, New York, NY.
Contemporary American Genre Exhibition, Adams Davidson Gallery, Washington, DC.
1975
Realist Invitational Exhibition, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
One-Man Exhibition, Garden Gallery, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC.
1976
One-Man Exhibition, Roanoke Fine Arts Center, Roanoke, VA.
Virginia Printmakers, Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA. (Certificate of Distinction – Awarded one-man show.) Juror: Alan Shestack.
Print Exhibition, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC. (Purchase Award) Juror: Harold Altman.
1977
One-Man Exhibition, Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA.
25th National Exhibition of Prints, Library of Congress and the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution. Jurors: Wayne Thebaud and Alan Shestack.
16th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria, IL. (Two Purchase Awards) Juror: Fritz Scholder.
1978
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Print Exhibition, Winston-Salem, NC. (Purchase Award) Juror: Gene Thornton.
National Print Exhibition, Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ. Juror: Judith Goldman.
One-Man Exhibition, Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Danville, VA.
1979
National Print Competition and Exhibition, Edinboro State College, Edinboro, PA. (Second Place and Purchase Award) Jurors: James McCormick and John Sirica.
13th Dulin National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Knoxville, TN. Juror: Warrington Colescott.
’79 National Print Exhibition in Texas, Austin, TX. Jurors: Sylvan Cole and Bill Weege.
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Print and Drawing Competition, Laurel, MS. (Two Purchase Awards) Juror: Ted Potter.
Miller Brewery Exhibition, Green Hill Gallery, Greensboro, NC. (Purchase Award) Jurors: Walt Hathaway and Aladar Marburger.
1980
22nd National Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK. Juror: Andrew Stastick.
1981
Virginia Printmakers 1981, Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA. (Two-year traveling exhibition) Juror: Sylvan Cole.
1981 Graphics Invitational, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC.
1982
Miller Brewery Juried Exhibition, Green Hill Gallery, Greensboro, NC. (Purchase Award) Juror: John Arthur.
One-Man Exhibition, Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
One-Man Exhibition, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
8th Annual Juried Exhibition, Shelby, NC. (First Award) Juror: Michael Kampen.
Realism Group Invitational Exhibition, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
1983
One-Man Exhibition, Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Danville, VA.
9th Annual Juried Exhibition, Shelby, NC. (First Award) Juror: Milton Bloch.
Contemporary American Prints, Permanent Collection, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC.
Seventh Annual Eastern United States Print Exhibition, North Carolina Print and Drawing Society, Charlotte, NC. (Two Purchase Awards) Juror: Kenneth Tyler.
One-Man Exhibition, Waterworks Gallery, Salisbury, NC.
One-Man Exhibition, High Point Theatre, High Point, NC.
1984
One-Man Exhibition, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
One-Man Exhibition, Gilliam & Peden Gallery, Raleigh, NC.
Group Show, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC.
Group Exhibition, Quadrum Gallery, Boston, MA.
1985
Group Exhibition, Quadrum Gallery, Boston, MA.
W.C. Bradley Fellowship/Residency Program, Columbus, GA.
Works on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC.
Two-Person Exhibition, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
Group Show, Sawtooth Center, Winston-Salem, NC.
1986
Ninth Artist Invitational, Waterworks Gallery, Salisbury, NC.
One-Man Exhibition, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Group Exhibition, Gilliam & Peden, Raleigh, NC.
1987
One-Man Exhibition, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
Contemporary Landscape, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Invitational Exhibition, The Crayon Show, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
1988
One-Man Exhibition, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL.
Winstone Lithographs, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC.
Partners in Patronage, Selections from Corporate Art Collections in North Carolina, Durham Art Center, Durham, NC.
Invitational Exhibition, Sketchbook Exhibition, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
Group Exhibition, Charged Places and Things, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY.
1989
One-Man Exhibition, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
Two-Person Exhibition, Marita Gilliam Gallery, Raleigh, NC.
1990
Lithographs from Winstone Press, RJR Gallery, Sawtooth School for Visual Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
Two-Person Exhibition, The Marlborough Galleries, Boston, MA.
1991
One-Man Exhibition, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
1992
Two-Person Exhibition, Marita Gilliam Gallery, Raleigh, NC.
1993
One-Man Exhibition, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
1995
One-Man Exhibition, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
New Regional Printmaking, Sara Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
1996
Two-Person Exhibition, Caswell County Civic Center, Yanceyville, NC.
1997
One-Man Exhibition, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC.
Two-Person Exhibition, Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC.
One-Man Exhibition, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
1998
One-Man Exhibition, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL.
2000
One-Man Exhibition, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
One-Man Exhibition, Caswell County Civic Center, Yanceyville, NC.
2001
Two-Man Exhibition, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
Group Exhibition, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
2002-2006
Group Exhibition, True Colors, Meridian International Center, Washington, DC. (Traveling exhibition)
2003
One-Man Exhibition, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
2006
One-Man Exhibition, Caswell County Civic Center, Yanceyville, NC.
Hills, Valleys, Vistas, Views, Art, Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC.
Masters, Mentors, Teachers, Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Danville, VA
Southern Landscapes, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC.
2010
One-Man Exhibition, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC.
2011
One-Man Exhibition, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
2012
One-Man Exhibition, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC.
Group Exhibition, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS.
2014
Group Exhibition, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
2015
One-Man Exhibition, Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Danville, VA
Selected Collections
Cabot Corporation, Boston, MA
R.J. Reynolds, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC
Bank of America, Charlotte, NC
Leggs Corporation, Winston-Salem, NC
Bank of Virginia, Roanoke, VA
Lauren Rogers Library and Museum of Art, Laurel, MS
Lake View Center for the Arts, Peoria, IL
Equitable, Inc., New York, NY
Miller Brewery, Eden, NC
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Edinboro State College, Edinboro, PA
Mississippi State Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Blount, Inc., Montgomery, AL
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Danville, VA
Alliance One International, Inc., Morrisville, NC
Duke Power Company, Charlotte, NC
North Carolina Print and Drawing Society, Charlotte, NC
Marriott Corporation, Greensboro, NC, and Richmond, VA
IBM, Raleigh, NC
Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN
W.C. Bradley Corporation, Columbia, GA
Life of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Piedmont Airlines, Charlotte, NC
Stouffers Winston-Salem Plaza, Winston-Salem, NC
Interstate Securities Corporation, Charlotte, NC
Trammel Crow Company, Charlotte, NC
Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, AL
Phillip Morris, Inc., Richmond, VA
Omni Hotel, Charlotte, NC
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Averett University, Danville, VA
Muscarella Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
*and many private collections
Selected Comments from Reviews of Various Exhibitions
“Marsh demonstrates a fine taste for suppression in his etching. . . . He is involved in thrusts, diagonal ones of power lines, rooflines, a bridge, a road, and straight verticals such as chimneys. All of these are beautifully done; he teaches at Averett College in Danville and he certainly rates as one of our best etchers.”
— Cossitt, F. D., Times-Dispatch art critic, “One-Man Exhibition at the Virginia Museum Richmond, VA,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, 18 September 1977.
“He has it all — emotional and logic, discipline and abandon. He has something to say and he says it with clarity, grace and precision.”
— Litt, Steven. “Draw Plays and a Tie Score.” The News & Observer/The Raleigh Times, 6 October 1989, page 4.
“Robert Marsh’s large canvases vibrate before the eye. Hundreds of strokes of oil cohere into a shimmering surface that guides the viewer gently but rapidly across the world, as though swept by a breeze of color. Marsh brings the familiar world alive.”
— White, Patrick. “An Exhilarating Exercise for Eye.” The Salisbury Post 27 January 1986, pages B1, B12.
“Agitated strokes scurry across the paper surface. . . . A matter-of-fact process of storytelling . . . variously detailed, beautiful and elusive. Marsh knowingly includes only essential ingredients to convey that particular reality.”
— Romero, Rubel. “Light and Shadow.” Spectator, Raleigh, NC 19 September 1984.
“Three cheers for Robert Marsh. . . . His bright colors vibrate and blend on the surface of his drawings, in the way that the pure colors of Seurat and Monet blended to form resonant hues of shade and sunlight. . . . Marsh might be criticized as a conservative artist who exhumes ideas from the past. But who cares? He’s good at what he does.”
— Litt, Steven. “Little Southern in ‘Abstractions’ at NCSU Gallery.” The News and Observer, Raleigh, NC 23 September 1984, page 5E.
“Feeling of total control over color; tremendous energy; fearless organization of white space.”
— Bloch, Milton, director, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC. Juror’s Comment, Shelby Exhibition, 27 October 1983.
“They possess a rare beauty and they are visually seductive. . . . These works have a quiet violence, a majesty that supersedes anything trite or mundane. Frenzy of Hues – Undercurrent of Tension.”
— Warren, Cathy. “Oil Crayon Works by Robert Marsh.” The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC 21 March 1982, page F3.
“Tensions, particularly evident in the voids between objects, are often created by effective lighting and mitigated by subtle, but beautifully rich surfaces . . . solidly anchored in the geometry of architecture and organic shapes, the images are stark, static and intense. . . . Our response is not to an emotional energy, but rather to a compelling experience or enormous concentration.”
— Weinstein, Ann. “Numerous Exhibits Fascinating.” Roanoke Times and World News, Roanoke, VA 19 December 1976, page F5.