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Biography
Robert Lagasse

Although ROBERT LAGASSE was educated as a Mechanical Engineer, he has always had a desire for creative endeavors using his hands. As a boy he spent many hours in his grandfather's garage workshop making a variety of things from pieces of scrap wood. During his high school years he won several awards from the Fisher Body Craftsman Guild for designing and carving scale model automobiles. In addition to his engineering endeavors he studied architecture, designed commercial and residential buildings and created architectural renderings for those designs. Now retired, he was the Managing Director of the American Clock and Watch Museum and is also a retired Army Officer having completed 24 years of Reserve service.

Bob has created a variety of birds and animals in wood. The primary interest and the majority of these unique pieces are aquatic in nature, with a particular fascination for whales, dolphins and sharks. He has learned much about his subjects through travel and water related activities including scuba diving. He has had experiences from the Caribbean to Hawaii and Alaska, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as well as the East Coast studying his subjects in their natural habitat. Although creates some of his work while away, most of his work is done at home.

Lectures using sample pieces have been given to interested groups including a gathering of interior decorators in our nation's capital. Bob's work has been on display in a number of locations from Hawaii to the East Coast. Included in this list are: The Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, J. Russell Jinishian Gallery, Stobart Gallery-Boston, and the Maritime Gallery of Portsmouth, Hew Hampshire. For more than twenty years many of Bob’s pieces have been accepted in the International Marine Art Exhibition at the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport where he has won an “Award of Excellence”. He has received mutiple awards from wildlife expositions as well. Bob’s work is featured in the book, Bound for Blue Water, a difinitive collection of the best American Marine art of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

$900.00