Robert William Head |

hed_010_brooksrg_550x244 — On Site Study – Brooks Range, Upper Marsh Fork, Canning River. Alkyd on canvas, 40 x 18 in, 1993

hed_020_river_550x247 — On Site Study – From the River, Upper Marsh Fork, Canning River. Alkyd on canvas, 40 x 18 in, 1993

hed_030_darocks_550x246 — On Site Study – Darleen’s Rocks, Upper Marsh Fork, Canning River. Alkyd on canvas, 40 x 18 in, 1993

hed_040_mfork_550x285 — Marsh Fork, Canning River, Brooks Range. Alkyd on birch panel, 15 x 8 in, 1993-94

hed_050_darmtn1_550x291 — Darleen’s Mountain, Upper Marsh Fork, Canning River. Alkyd on birch panel, 15 x 8 in, 1993

hed_060_darmtn2_550x291 — Darleen’s Mountain II, Upper Marsh Fork, Canning River. Alkyd on birch panel, 15 x 8 in, 1994

hed_070_requiem_550x274 — Requiem For Roger. Alkyd on canvas, 72 x 36 in, 1993

hed_080_rogmtn_550x343 — Looking West at Roger’s Mountains – On Site Study – Lower Marsh Fork, Canning River. Alkyd on birch panel, 12 x 7 in, 1993

hed_090_s_lmf_550x247 — On Site Study – Looking South, Lower Marsh Fork, Canning River. Alkyd on canvas, 40 x 18 in, 1994

hed_100_eastrvr_550x250 — On Site Study – Looking East Across the River, Lower Marsh Fork, Canning River, Alkyd on canvas, 40 x 18 in, 1994

hed_110_ln_lmf_550x245 — Developed On Site Study, Looking North Into the Clouds, Lower Marsh Fork, Canning River. Alkyd on canvas, 40 x 18 in, 1994-95

hed_120_windaid_550x246 — Wind Aided On Site Study – Near the Wheatear’s Nest – Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Alkyd on canvas, 40 x 18 in, 1996

hed_130_wolf_550x242 — On Site Study – Wolf’s Ridge – Hula Hula River – Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Alkyd on canvas, 40 x 18 in, 1996

hed_140_v1wolf_550x275 — Variation I – From On Site Study – Wolf’s Ridge – Hula Hula River – Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Alkyd on canvas, 72 x 36 in, 1996

hed_150_v2wolf_550x271 — Variation II – From On Site Study – Wolf’s Ridge – Hula Hula River – Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Alkyd on canvas, 72 x 36 in, 1996-97

hed_160_nearvr_550x247 — Near the River – From On Site Study – Hula Hula River – ANWR Brooks Range. Oil on canvas, 40 x 18 in, 1996-98

hed_2006 — From On-Site Study (7/96) – Hulahula River, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Oil on birch panel, 15 x 8 in, 2003

Robert William Head lives in the woodlands of western Kentucky. He taught painting and drawing at Murray State University from 1965 until 1997.

His work has been shown in numerous one person and group exhibitions throughout the United States. Recent solo shows were held at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Concord College, Athens, West Virginia; the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Doane College, Crete, Nebraska; Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green; and The Parthenon Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.
A native of Springfield, Illinois, Head received a Bachelor of Arts degree from MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois in 1963 and a M.F.A. degree from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, in 1965. He was designated Distinguished Professor at Murray State in 1981. He served as Chair of the Department of Arts for eleven years and is now Professor Emeritus.

Head was a visiting faculty member at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks in 1986 and also on the Semester-at-Sea program in 1970 and 1972. MacMurray College awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities in 1995.

The artist has traveled throughout Africa, Asia, Mexico and Canada. In the last few years he has spent much time painting in Alaska, frequently in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Brooks Range.

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