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.
Robert Pollian is featured in this month's issue of Decor magazine. Click image to access article.
"Little Hunters Beach" oil on panel 18" x 24" $5,000
"Late Winter, Eagle Lake" oil on panel 16" x 12" $2,600
"Beech Cliff, Autumn" oil on panel 24" x 18" $5,000
"Sand Beach" oil on linen 12" x 12" $2,400 sold
"Fog Study" oil on panel 12" x 16" $2,600
"Otter Point" oil on panel 12" x 12" $2,400
"Oak Hill Bluff, Acadia National Park" oil on linen $3,600
"Fog, Isle au Haut" oil on panel 16" x 12" $2,600 sold
"Monument Cove" oil on panel 12" x 16" $2,600
"Frenchman Bay" 16" x 20" oil on panel $2,400
"Hunter's Cliff" oil on panel $5,000
"Rising Tide" oil on Panel $2,600
* 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.