Robert Neffson

Robert Neffson (born December 28, 1949) is an American painter known for his photorealistic street scenes of various cities around the world, museum interiors and for early still lifes and figure paintings.

While attending the Boston University College of Fine Arts, from which he graduated cum laude in 1971,[1] Neffson's work attracted the attention of his professors, including James Weeks and the abstract expressionist painter, Philip Guston.

[1][2] Neffson was a member of the First Street Gallery[9] in New York from 1978 to 1985, during which time he had numerous solo exhibitions, as well as group shows with such fellow artists as Catherine Murphy.

Neffson sees the geometry of the city foremost—the parallel lines of the architecture, the grids of the streets and windows, the angular shadows the sun casts between skyscrapers.

One of Neffson's fortes is sorting out messy networks of objects, shadows, and reflections in store windows, which he does by systematically breaking down each component into a series of perfect planes.