Please join us for this one day retrospective of the Fire Island Art of Robert de Michiell.
NOT LONG after he had moved to Manhattan in 1980, Robert de Michiell—illustrator, caricaturist, New Yorker and Entertainment Weekly contributor, and the artist for numerous ad campaigns and theater programs—discovered Fire Island Pines. For many years, he and his husband, Jeffrey Wilson, have made the Pines their summer home-away-from-home. To Robert, that gay oasis is like a “very warm hug.”
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Please join us for this one day retrospective of the Fire Island Art of Robert de Michiell.
NOT LONG after he had moved to Manhattan in 1980, Robert de Michiell—illustrator, caricaturist, New Yorker and Entertainment Weekly contributor, and the artist for numerous ad campaigns and theater programs—discovered Fire Island Pines. For many years, he and his husband, Jeffrey Wilson, have made the Pines their summer home-away-from-home. To Robert, that gay oasis is like a “very warm hug.”
In 1998, he began an annual series of Fire Island watercolors, most of them created for a popular set of postcards sold in the Pines. This one-day retrospective—presented by ClampArt, the Fire Island Pines Historical Preservation Society, and de Michiell’s friends Rob Shmalo, Harry Heissmann, and James Gavin—gathers for the first time all 22 of Robert’s Fire Island images. These vibrant scenes portray Fire Island as he sees it: a whimsical, sexy, candy-colored Shangri-La, full of pumped-up beach boys frolicking in the waves and finding love beneath the setting sun.