Craig Rubadoux (Born 1937) American, 1994 Sarasota Music Festival Lithograph. Image title: "Quintet in D at Sea." Depicts musicians huddled together in a tiny boat. Signature in print bottom left. Information about the festival, the artwork, its origins, and the print included below. 

Overall Size: 24 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. 

Sight Size: 23 3/4 x 29 1/2 in. 

Craig Rubadoux was born in Rochester, New York in 1937. His family moved to Sarasota in 1945, and at the age of eight he began taking children’s summer art classes at the Ringling Museum of Art, directed by famed abstract artist Syd Solomon. An early aptitude for it led to his first one-man show with the Sarasota Art Association when he was just eleven years old. In 1954 he received a scholarship to the Ringling School. In 1955, while still in high school, Rubadoux apprenticed to nationally known Sarasota artist Ben Stahl and accompanied the Stahl family on a trip to Spain in 1956. Rubadoux stayed in Spain for two years, studying art and exhibiting in galleries in Madrid and Malaga. When he returned in 1958 he had one-man exhibits with the Sarasota Art Association and the Creative Arts Gallery in St. Petersburg, while working as an associate in the art education department at the Ringling. Not long after he went to teach at the Hilton Leech Amagansett School in Sarasota, and then the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut. Over the next 60 years Rubadoux taught art continuously, moving between the University of South Florida, the University of Florida, and Florida Atlantic University. His work has been shown around the world, with pieces on permanent display in the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Malaga. Rubadoux, like his early mentors Syd Solomon and Ben Stahl, has been called a “Sarasota Master,” and today he is lauded as one of the most important living figures in Florida art history and education.

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