Robert Puschautz Recreates Religious Artworks for East Texas Diocese

THE MIAMI HERALD
By Augusta Robinson, Tyler Morning Telegraph

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TYLER, TEXAS -- While viewing Robert Puschautz's "Madonna of the Roses," Tyler residents may feel they have a clear symbol of their city's connection to God's plan. The Tyler Morning Telegraph reports in the painting — which is inspired by a work by William-Adolphe Bouguereau that bears the same name — red roses drawn from those in the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden spring up in full bloom from a bush that surrounds Mary and Jesus Christ. The trees in the background are modeled from those created by American landscape painter George Inness, but might remind some of the Piney Woods of East Texas. Because Puschautz, a Chicago native who now lives in Tyler, avoids using photographs to create his works, even Jesus Christ was drawn based on a model — in this case his neighbor's sleeping baby. [More]