About the Artist :: Bob Maurer

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Bob Maurer has been painting watercolors for thirty years and enjoys the medium and its spontaneity and freshness. His painting style has been influenced by the California Tonalists and the feeling of mood those early twentieth century artists were able to create. Interested in capturing a mood in his paintings, Bob says the actual objects in the scene often act more as a backdrop for the atmospheric effects he wants to achieve.

One of Bob’s favorite subjects is architecture. His interest in architecture began to emerge at about the age of 9 when he was impressed by the vocal and often newsworthy Frank Lloyd Wright near the end of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life. Bob’s love of older architectural styles led to a six year project of producing ink drawings of dozens of local landmarks for the Canton, Ohio Preservation Society. His paintings and drawings of buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places hang in the collections of Hillary Clinton, Ohio Governor Bob Taft, and numerous other elected officials across the country.

Old cars, trucks, boats and bicycles also catch his attention. He says that he has often gotten himself in trouble by being compelled to haul a special old relic home with him to care for it, but now has learned to be content to simply paint it where it lies.

After a thirty year career as an urban planner in Ohio, Bob is now a full time artist. His works are in many private, corporate and public collections across the country.

Bob is a Roycroft Renaissance Artisan, associated with the current interest in Craftsman design and bungalow architecture of the early 1900’s. The Roycroft working campus is located in East Aurora, New York, where Elbert Hubbard originally organized the Roycrofters in 1897.

He is a signature member of the Ohio Watercolor Society, one of the top watercolor groups in the country; and has qualified as a lifetime member of the Whiskey Painters of America, with a limited membership of 200 watercolorists who use whiskey instead of water (on their brushes) in painting miniatures no larger than 4”x 5”. The group was founded in the 1950’s in Ohio and now is a national organization.

Bob travels throughout the United States sketching and taking photographs to use as resource material for new paintings. He resides with his family in Ohio in an Arts and Crafts home designed by his wife.

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