About
the Artist
David Routon
“I draw and paint representationally,
using as my subject, for the most part, the human
figure and mainly the head. I have worked from both
direct observation and photographs. Most of my work
has been in the exploration of personal imagery, but
a secondary involvement has been the making of the
more conventional imagery of popular portraiture because
I admire some of the work in the historical tradition
of that genre. In my personal imagery I seem to favor
as sources old photographs."
He attended various colleges eventually
to earn an undergraduate art degree, the BFA, at Mexico
City College, a private English-language college in
Mexico, in 1959 and a graduate art-practice degree,
the MFA, at the University of Iowa in 1963. Subsequently
he earned his living primarily as a college teacher
at several institutions: Michigan State University,
The State University College at Plattsburgh NY, the
University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and, finally,
the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He retired
from the
University of Nebraska in 1997, and presently resides
in Lincoln.
