Robert Pollien
Landscape painter Robert Pollien earned his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania under the noted artist Neil Welliver and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Rob has taught at the University of Southern Maine, The Maine Maritime Academy and at Artwaves MDI.
He has been an artist-in-residence at the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center at Rolling Acres Farm, the Carina House on Monhegan Island and was the first person to hold the position of Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park. He, has been awarded a Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in painting.
His work was included in Art of Acadia, by David Little and Carl Little as well as Art of the Maine Islands by Arnold Skolnick and Carl Little.
Pollien’s paintings are in numerous corporate, public, and private collections. He is represented by Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, the Littlefield Gallery in Winter Harbor, Maine, and Artemis Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine..
Pollien’s paintings are based on meditative observation of the natural world, combined with the subtle disquiet of our contemporary alienation from nature.
Rob has taught at the University of Southern Maine, The Maine Maritime Academy and at Artwaves MDI.
He has been an artist-in-residence at the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center at Rolling Acres Farm, the Carina House on Monhegan Island and was the first person to hold the position of Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park. He, has been awarded a Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in painting.
His work was included in Art of Acadia, by David Little and Carl Little as well as Art of the Maine Islands by Arnold Skolnick and Carl Little.
Pollien’s paintings are in numerous corporate, public, and private collections. He is represented by Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, the Littlefield Gallery in Winter Harbor, Maine, and Artemis Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine..
Pollien’s paintings are based on meditative observation of the natural world, combined with the subtle disquiet of our contemporary alienation from nature.
"Otter Point, Low Tide" oil on panel 12 x 12 "Snow Near Schoodic Head" oil on panel 12 x 12
" Otter Point," September oil on linen 9x12
Robert Pollien, a painter from Mount Desert Island, has been painting crows for 20 years. Some of his recent studies of the bird are remarkable—and set him alongside Wyeth as one of master renderers of this ubiquitous bird. Carl Little from his presentation "The Wyeths: All Creatures Great and Small" Ogunquit Museum of American Art, August 2, 2016.
"Crow Feeding" pencil and chalk on Canson board, 12 x 18 inches
Spruce Study graphite and chalk on toned board 14.5 x 11.5 "Acadian Slope" graphite and chalk on toned board 12 x 18
"Delightful Raven" graphite and conte on Canson board 12 x 18