Royal Robertson
1930 - 1997 (Louisiana, USA)
Sign-painter, designer, architect and futurist, who clad his home in evangelical warnings, raged against his former love, and drafted calendars and comic book visions of the apocalypse to come. This mighty American artist is regularly championed and has a dedicated space in the exhibition.
Collections: Smithsonian Museum (Washington DC).
Exhibitions: No Proud Bastards (2011), White Columns, New York.
Publications: Passionate Visions of the American South (1993), Alice Rae Yelen.