About the Artist
Robert Lingle, born in Florida, grew up in northern New Mexico. After receiving a BA from the University of New Mexico,
he became a pilot for the United States Navy and eventually for United Airlines. He took early retirement from the latter in order to devote full time to painting. He moved to El Paso, Texas, in 1992.
From 1976 through 1978, while flying for United Airlines, Mr. Lingle attended classes in drawing and painting at Northwestern Connecticut Community College in Winsted, Connecticut. He resumed his formal
art education in 1986, the year of his early retirement from United Airlines, at the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut. He studied figure and landscape drawing and painting there
with Ms. Jakki Kouffman of New York City until moving to El Paso in 1992.
He has exhibited in many group shows including those of the Art of the Northeast USA, New Canaan, Connecticut, and Arts International, El Paso, Texas. He also exhibited in a two-person show at the
Museo de Arqueologia, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Jurors who accepted his paintings for Art of the Northeast USA included LOWRY SIMS, Associate Curator of 20th Century Art,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; HELENE POSNER, Curator of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; and
ELIZA RATHBONE, Chief Curator of the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
His paintings are in private collections in Connecticut, New York City, Texas, New Mexico, Montana, and Cuidad Chihuahua, Mexico.