Tom is a life long full time fine artist who paints portraits, commissions, landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes and outer space scenes. He also creates robotic artists and art machines.
         The amazing thing about Tom's progress is that he is moving towards creating robot machines that paint, talk and maybe even think like him. In a world where apprenticeship under a master is considered passé, Tom looks to instill his knowledge in a machine.
    Tom feels that now is the time to present and develop artificial intelligent art creating machines. These art machines have branched out into living mobiles, light devices, whirly-gigs, using biogenetics to paint with, math formulas for profile generation, mobiles of cut out silhouettes in aluminum and marble sculpting.
     All the while his classical manner is becoming more refined and deliberate in copying the manner of the old masters.
     Tom trained under the world's most famous portrait painter, Ralph Wolfe Cowan. After assisting Mr. Cowan in Palm Beach in 1980, Tom started traveling the circuit of Palm Beach, Nantucket and New York City.
     He met Irene Moore while visiting home in 1990. They have lived in Clifton since getting married in 1994 and now have a daughter.
      Tom paints formal portraits in the manner of: WILLIAM ADOLPHE BOUGUEREAU 1825-1905.  These paintings are oil painted a la prima on a very smooth scrapped gessoed canvas stretched on board. The colors are as transparent as possible and all the edges are hard.
        Tom paints landscapes in the manner of: JAN VAN DER HEYDEN 1637-1712. These paintings are also painted a la prima on a very smooth scrapped gessoed canvas stretched on board. Figures are completely painted although they may be as small as one inch. Trees are painted carefully and without scrumbling. All paint is applied like icing on a cake.

Mission

Today Tom sees the advantage of the Internet as allowing the artist to market their wares directly in combination with good publicity and local art shows.

Profile

Tom built his first computer at the age of ten (it was mechanical). His  first PDA was a pocket computer from Radio Shack that he used to store all his addresses in one long roll of register tape from many cassettes of audiotape.

Tom uses these pages as a respite from the easel. Look forward to an interactive game in the future. It will be a game where the subject comes in for a painting and has a highly illiterate conversation with the artist all the while a portrait-taking place.

Resume of Thomas George Lohre, Jr.  

619 Evanswood Place, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220  

513-861-4146, tom@tomlohre.com, http://www.tomlohre.com  

Listed in:  

MARQUIS WHO’S WHO IN AMERICAN ART  

DEALER’S CHOICE ART BOOKS, INC. 2002 edition  

A Full Time, Life Long Painter of Portraits, Landscapes, Seascapes and Spacescapes including The Roberto Artisto Family of robotic artists  

Education:  

University of Kentucky, Associate in Arts, Lexington, KY, 1971-73  

University of Northern Kentucky Bachelor of Arts, Highland Heights, KY, 1973-76  

Art Training:  

Assistant to Ralph Wolf Cowan, Celebrity/Royalty Portrait Painter, Palm Beach, FL, 1980-81  

Work in Public Collections  

Portrait of Mr. Crawford, Behringer-Crawford Museum, Devou Park, Covington, Ky. 1994  

29 Portraits of Patrons on 4-7’ x 7’ murals, Trixie Delight’s,  

846 Monmouth St., Newport, Kentucky, 1996  

Portrait of “Jesus, Mary and Joseph”, Covington Catholic HS  

1600 Dixie Hwy, Park Hills, Ky., 606-261-0543, 1997  

Portrait of “Saint Agnes”, Saint Agnes Grade School,  

1322 Sleepy Hollow Rd., Ft. Wright, Ky., 606-261-0543, 1998  

Portrait of Henry Williams, Over-the-Rhine Senior Center  

1720 Race St., Cincinnati, Ohio, 513-381-3007, 1998  

Portrait of “Thomas More Teaching His Daughter and Ward”, Thomas More College  

333 Thomas More Pkwy, Crestview Hills, Ky., 606-341-5800, 1999  

Exhibitions  

Group Show, Axis Gallery, New York, New York, 1978  

The Art of Tom Lohre, Carnegie Art Center, Covington, Kentucky, 1980  

Mt. Saint Helens Show, Berkhart Gallery, Covington, Kentucky, 1980  

One Man Show, Great Expectations, New York, New York, 1981  

One Man Show, James Hunt Barker Gallery, Nantucket, Mass., 1985  

One Man Show, James Hunt Barker Gallery, New York, New York, 1987  

One Man Show, Artists Association’s Little Gallery, Nantucket, Mass. 1988  

Feed the Soul Feed the Body, Fitton Art Center, Hamilton, Ohio, 1994  

Group Show, KZF Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994  

Exhibit of the Cincinnati Art Academy Alumni, September 1994  

The Cinergy Collection Regional Show 1994  

One Man Show, Kaldi’s Coffeehouse, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1995  

Immortalizing Murals, Trixie Delight’s, Newport, Kentucky, 1995  

Steamboats and Showboats, Behringer-Crawford Museum, Covington, Kentucky, 1997  

HEREArt ART2-D2 Exhibition, New York, NY, 1999  

One Man Show, Visual History Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio 2000

The Great Tomaso Show, Visual History Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio 2002

Grants & Awards  

Second Place in Painting, Summerfair, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1978  

Second Place $1,000; Feed the Body Feed the Soul, Fitton Art Center, 1994  

Honorable Mention Painting, Duveneck Art Show, Northern KY Heritage League, 1995  

$5,000 Grant, Newport, Ky. Historical Committee, Newport, Kentucky, 1996  

Second Place Painting, Duveneck Art Show, Northern KY, Heritage League, 1997  

$1820 Grant from The City of Cincinnati, Ohio 1998-99  

Second Place Painting, Duveneck Art Show, Northern KY, Heritage League, 1999  

$3500 Grant from The City of Cincinnati, Ohio 2001-02

Bibliography  

United Press International; Master’s painting-your face, Cincinnati Post 8/25/ 78  

Penni Gladstone, Painting model of Voyager 2, Los Angeles Times; 1985  

Leslie Harlip, Brushing for Bucks, Village Voice 3/6/78  

Alan Tucker, Artist Depicts Fury, Beauty of Mt. St. Helens, Kentucky Post 7/23/80  

James Pierre, Kentucky Post  

Kim Sargent; Painting the Town, Palm Beach Daily 3/25/87 Owen Findsen; Lohre Mixes Art,  

People and Fantasy; Cincinnati Enquirer 6/28/81  

Terry Schierberg, Thos Lohre fine artist and landscape painter, NKU Update Spring, 1995  

Bob Driehaus, Helping Trixie’s Facelift, Kentucky Post 6/6/96  

Ed Hicks; Artist Immortalizing Strip Bar; Kentucky Enquirer 6/24/96  

Jan Perry; Trixie’s to Unveil Murals, Kentucky Post 8/21/96  

Ed Hicks, Exotic Dance Bar Dresses Up, Kentucky Enquirer 8/24/96  

Steven Ramos, Master Painter of Newport; City Beat, Cincinnati, Oh 1996  

Linda Johnson, Portrait dedication, Ft. Mitchell Living June, Kentucky 1997  

Painting for Covington Catholic, The Messenger; Cincinnati, Ohio 7/4/97  

A Modern Perspective, The Catholic Telegraph, Northern Kentucky 8/8/97  

Worley Rodehaver; Clifton Artist Tom Lohre Paints St. Agnes, Clifton Community News;  

Cincinnati, Ohio, 2/98  

Linda Johnson, St. Agnes Portrait for School, Ft. Mitchell Living April, Kentucky 1998  

David Minton, Group exhibits lacks order, Lexington Herald Leader, 8/30/1998  

Owen Findsen, Portrait Honors Longtime River Man, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12/27/9  

Karen Samples, Time For Trixie’s Artwork Is Over, Kentucky Enquirer, 1/16/2000  

Matt Marion, Your Instant Art Collection, Men’s Health Magazine, March 2001  

Karen Samples, Have Paint, Will Join Protest, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10/28/2002

Denise Smith Amos, Picture This Inspirational Cow for Relief, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2/19/2003

Roy Wood, Bicycle Mixes Art & Science, Cincinnati Post Article November 5th, 2003

Memberships  

Friends of Baker-Hunt Foundation, Covington, Kentucky  

Northern Kentucky Heritage League, Covington, Kentucky  

Publications  

Greenwich Village Guidebook, Saint Martin’s Press, 1994, Illustrator