 |
Mckendree Robbins Long
McKendree Robbins Long, son of Judge Benjamin Long, was born in Statesville, North Carolina, in 1888. Long was educated at Horner Military Academy in Oxford (NC), and later at Davidson College in the class of 1910. For a brief period Long attended classes at the Art Students League in New York city. During this period Long won a scholarship to study painting in Europe, and while there was able to hone his skills in the academic style of portraiture.
For a time, after his return to the United States, Long was able to support himself doing portraiture. It was, however, the outbreak of World War One that interrupted his work, and he went on to serve as a medic in the armed forces. In 1922 Long become an ordained Presbyterian minister. In 1935 Mckendree Robbins Long gave up his role as a Presbyterian minister, and began his ministry as a traveling Evangelical Baptist preacher and began painting again.
Mckendree Robbins Long spent the last 20-25 years of his life, in the completion of several hundred oil paintings. The work Mckendree Long Focused on during this time centered primarily on two themes - the "Lady in Red" and the Book of Revelation. Robbins Long is best known for his visual representations based on the book of the Revelation. Before his death in 1976, Robbins Long produced more than 100 of these visionary paintings that bring us a visual expression of the prophecies of the last days.
|
|