Bob Byerley is a realist oil painter of nostalgic Americana. Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1941, he now lives with his wife in a large Victorian home in Missouri.  The quiet, shady, tree lined streets and old brick sidewalks where children still ride homemade scooters are back drops and ever inspiring theatrical sets on which Byerley creates the themes for his paintings.  

Educated in the Old Masters Tradition of painting, receiving his B.A. and M.A. degrees in art from the University of Missouri, he rigidly defends the strong compositional design and content in his paintings.  "Content", Byerley explains, "has to do with the truths of life that we find around us.  Truths are those wonderful happenings that occur naturally without artistic manipulation.  Truths cannot be artificially staged, affected, conjured up, created, or invented to be sympathetic or trendy in a painting.  They occur simply, spontaneously and without effort."