A veteran of WWII, Robert Landry made good use of the G.I. Bill, and studied art in Minneapolis, MN, and in Washington D.C. He then worked as a staff artist for the U.S. Air Force graphic arts department in the Pentagon.

He also worked as the art director of the Federal Aviation Agency in New Jersey and at Convair Astronautics. In his later years, he moved to San Diego where he gained a reputation for his watercolor landscapes. He taught art and was a member of the San Diego Watercolor Society, and participated in watercolor painting workshops at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California with noted artist Jade Fon. and is remembered fondly by his students.

Fellow artist and art teacher, Don Foster of Colorao, reports Robert to have been a fantastic piano player who could sit down for hours and render up-tempo works of the thirties and forties without repetition.

Foster goes on to say that while they were teaching an art class together on the north shore of Oahu in 1970, Robert Landry began one class quoting Albert Einstein, "Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge limits us to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand."