Lanning returned home and founded her eponymous gallery to showcase Rogoway. The renowned Classic and Contemporary art gallery, founded in 1986, is proud of its most unique genesis. "His work spoke for itself," Lanning recalls, "Rog's character was all there on his canvases, larger than life." She remembers the summer Rogoway stayed in Sedona, already in his late 80s the artist drove his old yellow Volkswagen Beetle to picnic lunches with her staff. "He loved women," Lanning says, "he could be very devious and none of us were safe! He loved to dance and drink and laugh." She adds, "At the shows the gallery held for Rog during his lifetime he was tremendously moved that people could remain so interested in his work."

Rogoway lived and painted all over the world and made his home in Mijas, Spain for over two decades. Five years ago, while traveling in Spain, Lanning visited the artist's former home in the small mountaintop artists' community. "The road his home was on is named for him," says Lanning. "Many townspeople still remember him and I had the chance to meet some of his close friends and view their collections of Rogs. Even the elegant hotel in which we stayed had his paintings hanging in their lobby."

The New Yorker has said of Rogoway's paintings: "A cheerful mingling of the expressionistic and the nave." The New York Times has said: "His people inhabit a dreamy never-never land made very colorful." World of Art has said: "Compassion plus form are embodied in [Rogoway's] paintings... and convince us again of his stature."

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