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"Winter's Lace"
20" X 30" Oil
"A Change in Plans"
20" X 30" Oil
SOLD
"Will"
9" High Bronze |
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Robert
Summers,
II began creating figures and animals with bread dough at
the age of two. He was painting and doing pencil sketches
by school age and graduated to oils at the young age of nine.
Summers has had no formal art training, except a short course in
mixing colors at age 15, where he was told a short time later
that he had surpassed his instructor and was wasting his time
there.
At the Texas Ranger
Hall of Fame in Waco, Texas you can see two of his life-size
bronzes. One is of a standing figure of a Texas Ranger and the
other is of Texas Pioneer, Maj. George B. Erath. At the John
Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA one can see his nine-foot sculpture
of John Wayne that was commissioned in 1980. In 1987 The Astro
Dome Complex in Houston, Texas unveiled a three-quarter life
version of "Texas Legacy" by Summers which stands 20' x 12' x 7' and
depicts two cowboys on horse-back leading seven longhorn cattle over a
railroad crossing. In 1990 The United States Navy Memorial
Foundation commissioned three large bas-relief bronzes of Summers
showing various historical events and duties of the U.S. Navy and
Coast Guard. In 1992 Robert finished a nine-foot statue of golf
legend Byron Nelson that is located at the first tee at the Four
Seasons Resort and Club in Las Colinas in Irving, Texas. In
November 1992, Summers began work on a project commissioned by the
Dallas Trees and Parks Foundation that will contain three cowboys on
horse-back and 70 longhorn steers, with each being 130% life.
The bronze will cover four acres in down-town Dallas.
Summers resides with his wife
in their home town of Glen Rose, Texas.
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