Robert Beaven Wood Frame with Silver Gelatin Portrait Photographs of Children

Item Details

Robert Beaven (Cincinnati, Ohio, born 1929)
Portraits of children in folk art frame, 20th century
Silver Gelatin, Wood and twigs
Signed by Robert Beaven to frame
Portrait
Early 20th Century

Robert Beaven is an artist and a retired Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Cincinnati. He played a key role in shaping UC’s sculpture program starting in 1970, when the university’s art, architecture, and design programs merged to form DAAP (Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning).
He taught at UC for over 30 years while also maintaining an active studio practice.

Beaven began his career as a painter and printmaker, later shifting to mixed media sculpture, and eventually to finely crafted furniture inspired by the Adirondack tradition. One of his early prints is held in the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum. His work has been exhibited at venues including the Tangeman Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Center, and Solway Gallery.

After retiring from teaching, Beaven focused on his interests in antiques, folk art, and nature. His time outdoors led to collecting twisted sticks, twigs, fossils, and other natural materials, many of which became elements in his sculptural furniture. A lifelong maker and collector, he also ran an antique business with his wife, Anne, and they built a broad network of fellow collectors throughout Ohio and beyond.

Condition

- uneven yellowing to photographs; craquelure and areas of lifting; toning to mat; debris accumulation to frame; chips and abrasions to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame.

• Item not examined outside of mounting.

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Item #

ITMGR35787