Robert Gruppe Florida Paintings

Robert Gruppe Florida Paintings

Robert Gruppe, accomplished plein air painter and son of the famous Emile Gruppe, is a master at capturing the light of Florida. Here are a few of my favorites...

Florida Paintings in the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art

The best art museum for Florida themed landscape paintings in Florida is in Daytona at the Cici and Hyatt Brown museum in Daytona.

The innovative Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art is home to the largest collection of Florida art in the world and features a rotating collection of 2,600 Florida-themed oil and watercolor paintings. The Museum's grand central gallery and mezzanine showcase the collection's signature pieces, while six smaller galleries feature beautiful changing exhibitions with Florida themes.

Some of my favorites....

Herman Herzog

Herman Herzog

Herman Herzog

Herman Herzog

More from New Smyrna

A few more paintings and stuff from last month's New Smyrna Beach painting trip.

Moonrise over the palms

16" x 20"

oil on linen

 Sunrise

 New Smyrna Beach View

Palms

 Morning on the Beach

Everglades City Town Hall

A painting that I made plein air of city hall in Everglades City, Florida. Rapidly vanishing old Florida in the middle of the Everglades.

High and Dry

This is a painting I made plein air at the Conservancy of Southwest Flordia in Naples, Florida. Not far from the Carribean Gardens zoo, the conservancy occupies the Flieischman property which once was vast orange groves. As I was painting this scene I became lost in thought, as plein air painters often will, to be startled back into reality by the roaring of a lion. My first thought was that it must be a Florida panther and I kind of freaked. After a moment , I realized it was coming from the zoo, but the sound of the roaring lion carried through the orange groves and palms and really sounded like it was very close!

Honeymoon Island.

North of Clearwater is a favorite place of mine. It;s called Honeymoon Island and there I can indulge in painting one of my most favorite motifs- palm trees.

Big Cypress

I painted this scene in Big Cypress swamp, halfway between Naples and Miami. I love painting palms and being far out on the boardwalk painting the scene in the middle of the jungle is exhilarating.

Along a Naples Canal

I was scoping out suitable places to paint one morning and found this little scene nearby.
The bougainvillea was crawling all over a column from a retaining wall that reminded me a lot of French rococo artists- Fragonard in particular. He popularized a type of garden landscape painting that collectors prized. This view was also an excuse for me to paint my beloved palm trees.