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Karl Knaths

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Karl (Otto Karl) Knaths (1891 - 1971) was active/lived in Massachusetts, Wisconsin / USA.  Karl Knaths is known for Cubist still life-figure, non-ob, printmaking.

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 A painter recognized for his highly individual interpretation of Cubism, Karl Knaths was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in 1891. He grew up in the Midwest, and in 1912, he moved to Chicago, where he studied at the School of the Art Institute for four years. In 1913, he saw the Chicago exhibition of the groundbreaking Armory Show and was immediately drawn to the modernist work from Paris, especially the art of Paul Cézanne.

Massachusetts in 1919. His earliest work was inspired by the art of the Impressionists. However, after fraternizing with many of the local artists who had experienced the progressive art life of Paris, and by studying the examples of advanced European art in books and magazines, Knaths became deeply influenced by Cubism. By the late 1920s, he had evolved a very personal approach to this aesthetic, basing his abstract, but still recognizable compositions on seascapes and still life subjects.

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   Publications  Book References:  120
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Karl Knaths
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Antiques Sleeping Giants June 2005 Maneker, Roberta Yes
American Artist A Permanent Record of What Has Been May 2004 Koob, Pamela N Yes
American Art Review Provincetown: A Community of Artist October 2003 McCarthy, CHristine Yes
American Artist Exhibits August 1997 Editors, American Artist Yes
120 Book References for Karl Knaths
Year Author Title Pages Color
2017 Murphy, Kevin D. American Modernism at Mid-Century: The Work of Morris Davidson 128 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Passantino, Erika D (editor) The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making 819 Yes
1997 Agee, William C Modern American Painting 1910-194 Toward A New Perspective
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 No
1997 Merrill, Peter C German-American Artists in Early Milwaukee: A Biographyical Dictionary 165 No
1997 Phillips, Stephen Bennett Twentieth Century Still Life Paintings from Phillips Collection 120 Yes
1996 Shipp, Steve American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists 159 No
1996 Sims, Lowery/Sabine Rewald Still Life The Object in American Art, 1915-1995
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1994 Provincetwon Art Association and Museum Provincetown Abstract Painting 1915-1950 From The Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1993 Greenberg, Clement; Dr. John O'Brian, Editor Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (4 Volumes) 622 No
1992 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 545 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Littleton, Taylor/M Sykes Advancing American Art Painting, Politics and Cultural Confrontation
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Mecklenburg, Virginia Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1986 Deeds, Daphne Anderson Arizona Collects Twentieth Century Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Harris, Neil/Martina R Norelli Art, Design and the Modern Corporation
(Exhibition catalog)		 135 Yes
1984 Ausfeld, M L/V M Mecklenburg Advancing American Art Politics and Aesthetics/State Dept Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 Yes
1984 Clark-Langager, Sarah Order and Enigma
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 No
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1983 Contreras, Belasario R Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art 253 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1982 Young, Jean and Jim Ornament & Glory/Karl Knaths 72 Yes
1981 Lieberman, William (editor) An American Choice Muriel Kallis Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1981 Mead, Katherine Harper (Editor) The Preston Morton Collection of American Art (Santa Barbara Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Phillips, Laughlin and Duncan The Phillips Collection In the Making 1920-1930 96 Yes
1979 Springfield Library & Museum Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections 216 Yes
1979 Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor) The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings 227 Yes
1978 Spencer Museum of Art Spencer Museum of Art Handbook of the Collection 168 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Dillenberger, Jane & John Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1977 Everson Museum of Art Provincetown Painters 1890's-1970's
(Exhibition catalog)		 289 No
1977 Sawyer, Charles By the People, For the People New England (WPA artists)
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 No
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 322 Yes
1976 Institute of Contemporary Art A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976 194 No
1976 Meltzer, Milton Violins & Shovels The W P A Arts Projects 160 No
1975 Chambers, Bruce W American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue 127 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Hawkes, Elizabeth H (Curator and Essay) American Painting and Sculpture: Delaware Art Museum 182 Yes
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1975 National Academy of Design A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975
(Exhibition catalog)		 262 No
1975 Phillips, Laughlin (Introduction) American Art from the Phillips Collection A Selection of Paintings, 1900-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 E B Crocker Art Gallery American Drawings & Watercolors From the Munson Williams Proctor Institote
(Exhibition catalog)		 28 Yes
1973 Eaton, Charles Edward Karl Knaths Five Decades of Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 151 Yes
1973 O'Connor, Francis V (editor) Art for the Millions Essays by...Artists...WPA Federal Art Project 317 No
1972 Price, Vincent The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art 320 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Graham, F Lanier Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor 111 Yes
1970 Hope, Henry Radford (Essay) The American Scene 1900-1970 An Exhibition of twentieth century painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 119 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Brockton Art Center Three Centuries of New England Art From New England Museums 48 No
1969 Janis, Sidney Abstract & Surrealist Art in America 146 No
1969 Museum of Modern Art Editors American Art of the 20's and 30's (Three Catalogues Combined)
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 No
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Agee, William C The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1967 Walker, Lester C American Painting the 1940's
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 No
1966 Green, Samuel M American Art A Historical Survey 706 No
1966 Smithsonian Institution American Landscape A Changing Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 52 No
1965 Museum of Northern Arizona The American Collection Representative Paintings/Phoenix Art Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
1965 Richardson, Edgar P Painting in America From 1502 to the Present 456 Yes
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 91 Yes
1964 Indiana University Museum American Painting 1910 to 1960 50th Anniversary Exhibition College Unions
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1963 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Art Collections/Univ of Nebraska A Selection of Works/Inauguration of Sheldon Memorial
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1963 Vigtel, Gudmund The New Tradition Modern Americans Before 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1963 Woods, Willis F. (Intro); Paintings and Sculpture: Norton Gallery and School of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 100 Yes
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1959 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur Four American Expressionists 69 Yes
1958 Baur, John I H Nature in Abstraction Relation to Nature in 20th Century Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1957 Brooklyn Museum Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1957 Mocsanyi, Paul Karl Knaths
(Exhibition catalog)		 101 Yes
1956 Arizona State College Arizona State College Collection American Art 108 No
1956 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed) American Painting Today 127 Yes
1955 Breeskin, Adelyn D 200 Objects in the Baltimore Museum of Art 93 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Arizona State University The Arizona State College Collection of American Art 110 No
1953 Brooklyn, Museum American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection 48 No
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1951 Bazin, Germain/A Gloeckner History of Modern Painting 391 Yes
1951 Hess, Thomas B Abstract Painting Background and American Phase 164 Yes
1951 Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1950 Metropolitan Museum 100 American Painters of the 20th Century 132 Yes
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1949 Swenson, Eleanor De Gustibus A Century of Taste and Criticism
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1949 Wight, Frederick Milestones of American Painting in Our Century 135 Yes
1943 Kootz, Samuel M New Frontiers in American Painting 65 Yes
1943 Pearson, Ralph M Experiencing American Pictures 234 Yes
1939 Cheney, Martha Candler Modern Art in America 190 No
1939 Parker, Thomas (De Young Mus) Frontiers of American Art: Works Progress Administration
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 No
1939 Watson, Forbes (essay) American Painting Today 179 Yes
1936 Cahill, Holger (Introduction) New Horizons in American Art (Federal Art Project exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, NY)
(Exhibition catalog)		 171 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 215 No
1930 Jewell, Edward Alden Americans Modern Art 152 No
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