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Jim Rabby
United StatesArt Brokerage: Jim Rabby American Artist: Jim Rabby has developed a style that embodies his personality and the response to his paintings has been as positive as the man painting them. I picture myself like a race car, going down a winding road as fast as I can go, he says of his painting process. it's an adventure, trusting trust. I hang on and have a great time. The painting just races along it's simply synaptic and calling for what it's calling for, certainly faster than I can think. At the age of nine months, Rabby contracted polio. Rabby considers it the single, most powerful, positive event in his life. Raised in Houston, Texas, Jim's incredibly formative time as a youth was spent in and out of charity hospitals. Rabby had operations all through the fifties: the drugs given with those operations had a deep influence. Jim started painting in the back room of his parents' art supply and frame shop. At the age of nine, Jim had a profound vision that he was a sculptor who was going to be painting. Jim felt that if he gave it everything he could possibly muster, every resource, he could accomplish doing some really great art work. Rabby studied economics at the University of Houston, painting to put himself through school. Inspired by Picasso whom Jim believes lived in voracious curiosity; Jim experimented with many styles and mediums, from painting exotic dancers on stage to portraying sporting events. His reputation grew and soon his work was exhibited in major museums and corporate headquarters throughout the country, such as IBM, Honeywell, General Motors and Coca-Cola. Lyndon Johnson, whom Jim spent a day with in 1972, joined his list of private collectors, which also includes Johnny Carson, Jimmy Connors and H.L. Hunt among others. In the early seventies Jim opened The Westheimer Gallery. Rabby exhibited his work exclusively and painted in his studio on the third floor. Rabby also maintained a studio in beautiful San Miguel de Allende. Rabby painted voraciously in both of his studios. At once outrageous, insightful, playful, thoughtful, creative, passionate, original, imaginative, unassuming, resourceful, courageous and charming, it is no wonder Jim Rabby has captured the hearts of collectors throughout the world. Listings wanted.
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Jim RabbyFabric of My Life 1988 40x36 HugeOriginal Painting: Palette Knife Oil on Linen, Hand Signed, Oriiginal40x36 in | 102x91 cm |
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Jim RabbyExploring Cozumel 1976 24x24Original Painting: Oil on Canvas, Hand Signed24x24 in | 61x61 cm |
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Jim RabbyWhooping It Up 1987 38x36Original Painting: Oil on Canvas, Hand Signed30x28 in | 76x71 cm |
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Jim Rabby13 Hours Out of LALimited Edition Print: Hand Embellished Giclee on Canvas, Hand Signed, From the Edition of 7029x39 in | 74x99 cm |
Framed Limited Edition Embellished Giclee on Canvas $2,9953 Watchers
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Jim RabbyThis Looks Like a Girl Owl to Me 1972 17x21Original Painting: Acrylic on Canvas, Hand Signed14x10 in | 36x25 cm |
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Jim RabbyUntitled Painting 29x35Original Painting: Acrylic on Canvas, Hand Signed18x24 in | 44x60 cm |
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ð¥ð¥1972 Framed Acrylic on Canvas - A Real Steal $2,490 Motivated
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Jim RabbyUntitled Painting 36x35 HugeOriginal Painting: Oil on Canvas, Hand Signed29x28 in | 73x71 cm |
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Jim RabbyKisses in the Breeze 2008 22x24Original Painting: Oil on Canvas, Hand Signed12x14 in | 30x36 cm |
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Jim RabbyUntitled Abstract Painting 1973 10x9Original Painting: Oil on Hardboard, Hand Signed4x5 in | 10x13 cm |
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Jim RabbySprings Caress 2003 49x29 - HugeOriginal Painting: Pallate Knife Oil on Linen, Hand Signed36x16 in | 91x41 cm |
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ð¥ð¥ð¥1972 Framed Acrylic on Canvas - Inquire - A Real Steal $2,200 Heavy Impasto Texture
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