BOCA RATON, FL.- The Boca Raton Museum of Art opened its spring exhibitions today April 26, Robert Vickrey: The Magic of Realism, running through June 19 and Art for the People: 20th Century Social Realism, running through September 11. Robert Vickrey is a crucial figure in the mid-twentieth-century renaissance of egg tempera, one of the oldest, most versatile and most durable painting mediums. Using the same labor-intensive techniques practiced by Renaissance artists Giotto and Botticelli, Vickrey has become America’s leading modern master of this centuries-old medium and is unquestionably egg tempera’s most innovative practitioner. Robert Vickrey continues today to mix egg yolks with ground pigments to create realist images that incorporate symbols and subjects from his personal observations. This exhibition presents approximately 40 works from Vickrey’s 60-year career as the living master of tempera pain