Robert Wyland (b. 1956 in Detroit, Michigan), known simply as Wyland, is one of the world's premier ocean artists. He is perhaps best known for painting large, outdoor murals of whales and other ocean life. He has been a pioneer in the marine art movement since 1971. This painter, sculptor, and muralist is one of the most prolific and celebrated artists of our time.
To date, in addition to his spectacular paintings of a wide variety of marine life, Wyland has completed more than 84 of his landmark murals, the renowned "Whaling Walls", throughout the US, as well as Canada, Japan, Australia, Mexico, France and New Zealand.
His twenty-fifth "whaling wall" is located in the pool area of Lamphere High School, which he attended in Madison Heights, Michigan. Wyland currently lives on Oahu, in Hawaii. He has a goal of painting one hundred Whaling Walls by 2011.
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