Robert Harvey was born in 1927 in Milton, Massachusetts. His father Leon was a teacher and coach at Thayer Academy in Braintree, and Bob was raised in a house on the campus and attended Thayer through graduation in 1945. At Thayer Academy, Harvey illustrated his high school yearbook. He studied art at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston, then went into the service, and then returned to art school on the G.I. Bill for returning World War II veterans. He was married in 1950 to Carolyn Brenan, also a graduate of the Museum School, and settled in...more