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Keith Rocco

An Artist's artist.  In style, subject matter, quality, and inspiration, Keith Rocco's work evokes the masters of narrative, historical art: N.C. Wyeth, deNeuville, and Pyle.  An American painter and storyteller, Rocco has continued their legacy, creating visually stunning works which capture the drama of history, recording with care and nuance the details of his vision.  It is a vision that has moved him through a lifetime to become one of the country's most sought after narrative painters.

Rocco's passion for history and art began early.  At the age of nine, for Christmas, he talked his parents into getting him the Golden Book of the Civil War he had spied at a local five & ten.  The book, filled with photos and drawings, inspired the budding, young artist to meticulously copy the pictures.  At that time in his life, he knew little of the traditions of historical art; research accuracy, emotion, and artistic vision.  Yet, instinctively, as a child, he practiced the tenets of the craft as if somebody he knew it would be his future.

The work that goes into one of Rocco's canvasses is prodigious.  Because he never puts brush to canvas without exhaustive research, he finds he must plan his paintings months, sometimes years before he starts his painting.  this work often requires the help of professional historians and museum curators.  The result of all this research and work has been gold for Rocco's art.  His painterly and fluid style and extensive research has earned Rocco the acclaim as one of the country's most sought after narrative artists.  His characters are a looking glass onto the endless variety of human nature; a nature that can be as noble as it can be brutal.

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