Robert Frame began his art career in the mid - 1940’s. He attended Pasadena City College and Pomona College in Claremont. Frame received several awards in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s among these were awards from the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pasadena Art Museum in California.
His group showings include prestigious museums such as: San Francisco Museum of Art, DeYoung Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art and many others.

Robert Frame also showed in the 1950s at such renowned Los Angeles galleries Ester Robles Gallery and Ankrum Gallery where he sold all of the pieces shown.
During this time in the Los Angeles gallery scene, Robert Frame was among other exhibiting artists like Sam Francis, Richard Diebenkorn, James Strombotne and Ed Keinholz. Although he was very well received and recognized, Robert Frame always loved to teach.

In 1966 he took a job teaching in Santa Barbara and lived and painted there till he passed away in 1999. Having spent this many years teaching Frame has relatively little gallery involvement and representation.

I consider Robert Frame as an artist of the time being rediscovered. He painted in the Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figural Style and at the time had shown concurrently with the major figures of those movements.

It is an amazing feeling to be able to re-introduce the art world to this talented and amazing individual.