Robert Guinan

Robert Guinan (March 14, 1934 – April 3, 2016) was an American painter based in Chicago. The subject thing of his be active includes but has not been limited to street performers, musicians, barflies, historical scenes, landscapes and building structures. Lauded in Europe but widely unidentified in his native Chicago, Guinan's work reflects a documentary feel that has been compared to "that of the Parisian demi-mondes as chronicled and interpreted by Toulouse-Lautrec".

Toulouse-Lautrec was really an influence upon Guinan; as a pubertal man he axiom the film "Moulin Rouge" and felt bearing in mind Toulouse-Lautrec, the 19th-century French painter known for his portraits of night sparkle in Paris.