Roger Winter is an American artist, teacher and writer.

Early life and education

He was born August 17, 1934, in Denison, Texas, the youngest of eight children. Winter was the first in his large original family to attend college. In 1952 he left Denison to study art at the University of Texas in Austin. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts and serving two years in the

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, he moved to

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to earn an MFA in painting from the

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. He then applied for and received a Max Beckmann Memorial Scholarship for study at the Brooklyn Museum School in New York.

Career

As a painter, Winter has explored many approaches to balancing illusion and abstraction in his work. Winter’s recent work shows the influence of his daily experience of architecture and ongoing construction in New York. His time spent in the minimal landscapes of

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and

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has simplified his painted edges and divisions of canvas space. Winter's painterly brush work and his belief in the importance of luminosity appear to be surviving elements from the past. Winter taught painting and drawing for 10 years at the now defunct art school of the Dallas Museum of Fine Art. While living in Dallas, he also taught from 1963 to 1989 at Southern Methodist University’s (SMU’s)

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. Winter currently shows his work at Gerald Peters Contemporary in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Kirk Hopper’s Gallery of Fine Art in Dallas, Texas.

Gallery

Roger Winter Interurban 1968.jpg, Roger Winter, Interurban, oil on linen, 25"x31", 1968 Roger Winter Texas Odyssey 2 - 1994.jpg, Roger Winter, ''Odyssey 2'', oil on linen, 24"x36", 1994 Roger Winter The Long Walk 2010.jpg, Roger Winter, ''The Long Walk'', oil on linen, 42"x72", 2010 Roger Winter Berit's Iceberg 2013.jpg, Roger Winter, ''Berit's Iceberg'', oil on linen, 28"x108", 2013 Roger Winter Prescience 2020.jpg, Roger Winter, ''Prescience'', oil on linen, 60"x48", 2020

Personal life

Winter is married to children’s book author and illustrator, Jeanette (Ragner) Winter. They currently live and maintain studios in New York City. Their two sons, Jonah Winter and Max Winter, are both professional writers.

References

External links

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A Conversation with artist Roger Winter at the 2019 CASETA Symposium
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