Robert McClay

Robert McClay (illustrator of Zodiac Sign Sagittarius), was born in Hollywood in 1932. After graduating with honors from North Hollywood High School, he attended UC Berkeley on a scholarship. After two years, he transferred to San Francisco State where he ultimately graduated (the first in his family to do so.) In addition to a lifetime of fine-art painting, McClay worked as an illustrator, cartoonist and graphic designer for the San Francisco Chronicle and KQED public television. He also free-lanced for public relations companies, theater groups and advertising agencies for many years.

Robert McClay painted for over fifty years, working both as a commercial illustrator and graphic designer for many corporate clients. Several of his paintings in this awards show are dream landscapes but what stood out for this visitor were his doorway series in which he paints scenes beyond an open doorway onto a door itself. A doorway to a garden, the Alpines, Paris, Venice” exhibited-- Art Guild of Pacifica at Sanchez Art Center, 2005 per The Dirty Palette, newsletter of the Art Guild, September 2006.

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