Art At The Nature Center:

Robert Templeton

WOODBURY — Leonore Templeton, the widow of artist Robert Templeton (1929-1991), will speak about her late husband and his remarkable development from a shy Iowa farmboy to a painter who created portraits of some of America’s powerful leaders during the next “Art at The Nature Center” lecture.

Mrs Templeton’s program will be at Flanders Nature Center on Friday, October 17. It will begin at 7:30 pm. The program is open to the public, and donations will be appreciated.

From Time magazine covers to court sketches and his series “Lest We Forget… Images of the Black Civil Rights Movement,” Robert Templeton held his ground as a realist painter during a time when Abstract Expressionism had overwhelmed the art world. The audience on October 17 will view Templeton’s landscape paintings of Iowa farmlands and scenes of the artist’s travels in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean.

Leonore and Robert met in her native Heidelberg, Germany, when he was stationed there an a US Army Signal Corps photographer. They married and lived in New York City and Iowa before moved to Woodbury in 1965, where the couple raised three sons.

Mrs Templeton has been active in Woodbury Historical Society and is the creator of the annual “Picnic and Pops” Waterbury Symphony Orchestra concerts in Woodbury.

Flanders Nature Center is on Flanders Road at Church Hill Road. The program will be in the nature center’s Van Vleck Studio. Call 203-263-3711 for reservations or additional information.