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Robert Stack: American Academy
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Robert is well known for his equestrian works. He used horses initial as models, going to local farms and horse shows to sketch them. Horses soon became an important subject in his work as well as a hobby and at times an occupation. In 1995 his gouache painting of sidesaddle titled "Line Up" won the Ruth E. Robins award for watercolor at the American Academy of Equine Art and he has been a continual contributor to their "Horse in Fine Art" traveling exhibition that takes place at the Wildlife Experience Museum in Parker CO, and at the American Academy of Equine Art's location in Lexington KY. Robert has had works chosen for the official posters for the "Ludwigs Corner Horse Show", "Dressage at Devon", and the "Devon Horse Show" (the nations largest outdoor horse show) A large number of Roberts's equestrian and other works have been available in print for some time. His digital/technical background has led him to experiment with the creation of images based on his paintings using state of the art archival printers commonly called "Gicl".
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In 1957, Stack was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Written on the Wind. He starred in more than 40 films. Known for his steadfast, humorless demeanor, he made fun of his own persona in comedies such as 1941 (1979), Airplane! (1980), Caddyshack II (1988), and BASEketball (1998). He ... provided the voice for the character Ultra Magnus in Transformers: The Movie (1986).
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Stack was lent out to MGM for Frank Borzage's The Mortal Storm (1940), in which he played a Nazi in his all-American manner. He was soon back at Universal, opposite Durbin again in Nice Girl? (1941). The following year, he made an impact in Ernst Lubitsch's comic masterpiece To Be or Not To Be as a Polish pilot against the Nazis. Stack played a pilot again as an American with the RAF in Eagle Squadron (1942).
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