D.L. “Rusty” Rust was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1932. He began drawing and painting at a very early age and his creative expression was influenced by his grandfather, Emil Rust, Gil Elvgren, Bob Toombs, and Norman Rockwell. D.L. Rust and Norman Rockwell used to correspond regularly. Rust’s paintings hang in the Ringling Museum of the Circus in Sarasota, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Philadelphia, and the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Rusty’s ability to capture nature lies between fantasy and reality. Realism is his style, but he wants to take the collector’s imagination one step further. He is an artist sensitive to nature and its surroundings. A prolific painter, Rust has produced more than 15,000 paintings and has 2,000 originals registered by owners with the National Museum and Gallery Registration Association (an NMGRA record). Learn more at www.rustyart.net
