Bob Stanley

Bob Stanley, 1932-1997 was a pioneer of the Pop Art movement in the US - an American artist best known for translating newspaper photographs and other commercial imagery into gritty works on canvas - before some of his more famous contemporaries.  Robert Stanley or just Bob Stanley, was born in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1932. After attending Columbia University for two years, he received a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1953 from Oglethorpe College in Atlanta and studied art at the High Museum of Art there.