Copyright © 2003-2024 by Bob Bickers.  All rights reserved.

Duff Park Sunset          

20” x 24” (50.8cm x 60.96cm); oil on canvas

This painting depicts a scene just a few miles from my home in the winter of 2010-2011. Duff Park, Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

Desert Yucca          

22” x 28” (56cm x 71cm); oil on canvas

Big Bend National Park in Texas.

Westmoreland Harvest       

24” x 36”; oil on canvas

This valley is in north central Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. This painting won FIRST PLACE - [oils/acrylics] in August, 2006, at the 2006 Murrysville Community Day Art Show sponsored by the Women’s Club of Murrysville (Pennsylvania). This painting was also selected for the cover (and an article inside) of the 2007 Winter issue of InMurrysville Community Magazine.

Courthouse Wash

24” x 36” (61cm x 91.4cm); oil on canvas

Arches National Park, Utah.

This painting is part of a private collection that is presently for sale.  For more information, please see my art blog here.

Conemaugh Bridge No. 4 on the West Penn Trail

18” x 36” (45.72cm x 91.44cm); oil on canvas

A short distance east of Murrysville, Pennsylvania, where I live, is a section of the West Penn Trail which crosses back and forth across the Conemaugh River along a series of old stone railroad bridges built over a century ago.  They are stained yellow and red by the iron deposits washing out of the many flooded mines upstream. Westmoreland and Indiana Counties, Pennsylvania.

This won Third Place for oil & acrylics at the 2011 MURRYSVILLE WOMEN’S CLUB ANNUAL ART SHOW at the Murrysville (PA) Municipal Building October 8-9, 2011.  Click on the detail (inset) to enlarge.

This painting was for sale at the West Penn Trail Juried Art Show on June 2 - July 11, 2015 at the Latrobe Art Center, located at the corner of Main and Ligonier Street in downtown Latrobe, Pennsylvania. More about the show can be found here.  This painting was donated to the Conemaugh Valley Conservancy and may still be available for sale by that group.

Click on detail at top right.

Urban Jurassic          

18” x 24” (45.7cm x 61cm); oil on canvas

This is a view of downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at Seventh Street and Liberty Avenue. This painting was juried into the 10th ANNUAL REGIONAL JURIED ART EXHIBITION by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, Inc. at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley, PA, from November, 2005 to February, 2006. It was featured on the back cover of the show's program.

My Father at Yosemite    

24” x 18” (61cm x 45.7cm);

oil on canvas

My father fulfilling his dream of fishing in Yosemite National Park in California in 1972.

West Rim Trail        

18” x 24” (45.7cm x 61cm); oil on canvas

Zion National Park, Utah.

This painting is part of a private collection that is presently for sale.  For more information, please see my art blog here.

Mesa Verde Ruins         

18” x 24” (45.7cm x 61cm); oil on canvas

Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.

August Afternoon         

18” x 24” (45.7cm x 61cm); oil on canvas

This depicts a favorite barn in Murrysville, PA, not far from my house. This painting won a JUDGES AWARD BLUE RIBBON in July, 2005, at the Penn Hills Arts and Crafts Festival in Penn Hills (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania. This painting also won an HONORABLE MENTION (oil) at the September, 2005 East Suburban Artists League’s Annual Members CCAC BOYCE Art Show & Sale in Monroeville, Pennsylvania.

Churchill Homestead

16” x 20”; oil on canvas

This is the house where my wife lived most of her childhood in Churchill, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh.  A heavy snow one winter made it a compelling object to paint.

Westmoreland October         

18” x 24” (45.7cm x 61cm); oil on canvas

Big Bend Storm          

18” x 24”; acrylic on canvas

Big Bend National Park, Texas.

Along the Rio Grande       

12 x 16, oil on board

Mexican border at Big Bend National Park, Texas.

Dusk in the City         

20” x 24” (50.8cm x 60.96cm); oil on canvas

This painting depicts a part of Pittsburgh at sunset from an office in the Grant Building.

After the Snowfall           

12 x 16, oil on canvas

Westmoreland County, the day after the storm.

Farm Road                               

12” x 16”, oil on board

Farmland near Conemaugh River Lake.

Fluid Sunrise         

12 x 16; oil on canvas

Colorful sunrise along a North Carolina beach.

Active Refinery                       

12 x 16, oil on board

Yet another refinery in a very industrial area in Wyoming.

Refinery at Work                       

12 x 16, oil on board

A petroleum refinery in Wyoming.

West of the Mountains         

12 x 16, oil on board

Open spaces east of Greensburg, Westmoreland County, PA.

Around the Corner

12” x 16” ; oil on canvas

Autumn Fire

14” x 18”; oil on canvas

The inspiration for this painting came from a late afternoon autumn walk near Conemaugh Dam, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. This painting also won a BLUE JUDGES’ AWARD (OILS) at the September 2008 EAST SUBURBAN ARTIST LEAGUE'S ANNUAL MEMBERS CCAC BOYCE ART SHOW & SALE in Monroeville, Pennsylvania.

This painting was for sale at the West Penn Trail Juried Art Show on June 2 - 12, 2015 at the Latrobe Art Center, located at the corner of Main and Ligonier Street in downtown Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The painting was donated to the Conemaugh Valley Conservancy.

Siberian Snow Geese

24” x 36”; oil/canvas

I was struck by the patterns on these geese and I imagined how those patterns might help them in their native environment to confuse and escape from predators.

Dragonflies

28” x 22” ; oil on canvas

Big Bend National Park, Texas. This won an HONORABLE MENTION - oil; Mid-South Fair, Memphis, TN; September, 1990.

Bike Ride

9 x 12, oil on board

A study of the Westmoreland Heritage Trail near Saltsburg, PA.

Near Moab          

15” x 30”; oil on canvas

A scene in Arches National Park, Utah.  This painting came in FIRST PLACE at the EAST SUBURBAN ARTISTS LEAGUE’s OKTOBERFEST, Monroeville, PA, October, 1996.

Youngwood Winter                       

12 x 24, oil on canvas

Snow falling in a neighborhood in Youngwood, Pennsylvania.

Grand Teton Sunshine                      

12 x  24, oil on canvas

A beautiful cloudless day at Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

Wyoming Shadows

12” x 24” ; oil on canvas

Colorado Afternoon

17.5” x 34” (44.5cm  x 86.4cm); oil on canvas PRIVATE COLLECTION

Rock in Stream

12” x 16” (30.5cm x 40.6cm); oil on canvas

PRIVATE COLLECTION

Westmoreland Hills

15 x 30 (38cm x 76.2cm), oil on canvas

A farm in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Big Bend Desert

16 x 20, oil on canvas

Scene in Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas.

Desert at Big Bend

16 x 20, oil on canvas

Where the Spirits Dwell

18 x 24 (45.7cm x 61cm); oil on canvas         

PRIVATE COLLECTION

This painting was based on a scene in Arches National Park, Utah. This also received the PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD (Favorite Overall Artist - All Categories) at the Mid-South Fair, Memphis, TN; September, 1988.

Pennsylvania Snow

11 x 14, oil on board

Rolling hills of Washington County, Pennsylvania.

April Showers

16” x 20”; oil on canvas

Cook Forest Stream

18” x 24” (45.7cm  x 61cm); oil on canvas       

PRIVATE COLLECTION

I fell down a ravine and came upon this scene in Cook Forest State Park, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.

Autumn Forest

12 x 16, oil on board

Fall colors near a fallow field in Murrysville, PA.

Flying Fish

28 x 22 (71.12cm x 55.88cm);oil on canvas

PRIVATE COLLECTION

Center of Commerce

12 x 16, oil on canvas

A busy day in a remote part of New Mexico.

Valley of Fire

12 x 16, oil on board

Valley of Fire State Park just north of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Utah Junipers

12 x 16, oil on board

A scene near Cedar Breaks National Monument in Utah.

West Rim Trail

24” x 32”; gouache on board

PRIVATE COLLECTION

View from the West Rim Trail in Zion National Park, Utah. This won FIRST PLACE - watercolor; Mid-South Fair, Memphis, TN; September 1988 and PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD - Favorite Overall Artist - All Categories; Mid-South Fair, Memphis, TN; September, 1988.  Click on the detail below to enlarge.

NEW HORIZONS

Landscapes in Oil by Bob Bickers

Elaine Biondi Gallery Space | Monroeville, Pennsylvania | December 2017

This exhibition of original oil paintings was open to the public throughout the month of December, 2017 at the Monroeville Public Library.

The bulk of this show’s paintings are new landscapes and had never been on public display before, hence the show’s title, “NEW HORIZONS”.  Having recently retired from the practice of law, the show also represented Bob’s new explorations as a full-time artist.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS LANDSCAPE ART EXHIBIT