A landscape artist and graphic designer, Robert Duvall was born in Boise, Idaho February 24, 1955. Soon after high school he left home to attend College of San Mateo in San Mateo, California and majored in Technical Arts & Graphics where he won Best of Show and two First Place awards for technical illustration at the Industrial Graphics International 1979 and a National Third place award in 1978.
After working as a technical illustrator, he relocated to Oakland, California to attend the California College of Arts & Crafts. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts, he moved to San Jose, California and worked as commercial artist and graphic designer for Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. and Eudyna Devices. His landscape painting is largely influenced by the works of Albert Bierstadt, Edwin Church, Thomas Hill, and Edgar Payne.
He has entered many shows In Berkeley, California, Boise, Idaho, Los Gatos, California, Yosemite National Park, and New York as well as being published in the International Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art 2001/2002 in which he was awarded Associated Academician from the Academy of Verbano, Italy.
