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Howard Chesner Behrens

Howard Chesner Behrens (1933 - 2014) was active/lived in District Of Columbia, Illinois.  Howard Behrens is known for Light filled palette knife painting, figure, landscape, marine genre.

Born in 1933 in Chicago and growing up in Washington DC acclimated Howard Behrens to historic painted works in the respective museums of each city. After earning his Masters Degree in Painting and Sculpture in 1964 from The University of Maryland, he began a career that has led him to every end of the globe and back, to find and paint scenes of intense beauty.

He has a style that likens itself to the Impressionists of the late nineteenth century, a mixture of Monet, Courbet, Corot and Pissarro- with flair all its own. His use of the palette knife has garnered him the recognition world-wide as the modern master of the technique. An avid world traveler, his magnificent on-location paintings of Mexico, Italy, France, Hawaii, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and United State's coastlines show his marvelous grasp of the colors of his surroundings.

Using impasto (thick paint) he creates depth of field and intense contrast between light and shadow. He has virtually eliminated   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8586 characters.]  Artist bio

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