Joe Rader Roberts

1925-1982

BORN IN

Houston, Texas

KNOWN FOR

Genre-frontier Indian, landscape

Joe Rader Roberts (1925-1982)

Born in Lockhart, Texas, he found work after graduation from high school as a commercial artist.

After serving in the Merchant Marines from 1943-1945 he enrolled in the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. In 1949 he married and moved back to Houston, working as a commercial artist painting illustrations on store fronts of various businesses.

His passion for the historic frontier drew him to the fine arts and he became a full time artist painting scenes of the early West.

Roberts is best known for his western narrative paintings.
His son, Gary Lynn Roberts, is also a noted Western artist.

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