Wonderful clip, Socratoad. Robert Bateman is someone whose works need to be universally displayed in all of the world's great museums. His is a message that totally grips the emotions which respond to the horrific consequences that await our disregard of God's gifts of nature to us.

His critics, who derisively portray him as a mere illustrator, are reminiscent of Norman Rockwell's contemporary detractors, who foolishly labeled him as a mere illustrator of magazine covers.

Perhaps the Luke 4:24 epigram, "No prophet is accepted in his own country," applies to great artists, as well.

Bateman's Russian exhibitions will, upon his return, I believe, elevate him to a stature he could not have ac...

Wonderful clip, Socratoad. Robert Bateman is someone whose works need to be universally displayed in all of the world's great museums. His is a message that totally grips the emotions which respond to the horrific consequences that await our disregard of God's gifts of nature to us.

His critics, who derisively portray him as a mere illustrator, are reminiscent of Norman Rockwell's contemporary detractors, who foolishly labeled him as a mere illustrator of magazine covers.

Perhaps the Luke 4:24 epigram, "No prophet is accepted in his own country," applies to great artists, as well.

Bateman's Russian exhibitions will, upon his return, I believe, elevate him to a stature he could not have achieved had he remained stationary.

To paraphrase T.S. Eliot's "Little Gidding," "When Bateman returns from all his world exhibitions, he'll return to where he started, and he will seen and celebrated as though it was his very first time in his beloved Canada.