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Robert Kipniss

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Robert Kipniss (Born 1931) is active/lives in New York.  Robert Kipniss is known for Monochromatic vista, graphics.

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 Robert Kipniss, painter and printmaker, was born in New York City in 1931. He creates essentially monochromatic*, stylized vistas with natural and architectural elements intended to evoke an elegiac, nearly surrealistic mood in haunting, silent landscapes; the melancholy of nostalgia.  Trees, in mid and far-distance, form clusters or act as misty individuals containing a haunted, indefinable presence, witnesses to the foreground drama of more specific shape, form and detail, often a close-up tree.

Kipniss studied at the Art Students League* in 1947; Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, 1948-50; and the University of Iowa, receiving a BA degree in English literature in 1952, and an MFA in painting and art history in 1954. The artist employs a meticulous technique combining a multiplicity of specific strokes, whether with brush, pencil or print-maker's needle and burin*, to create the essence of his generalized, non-specific forms.

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Artist auction records

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Facts about Robert Kipniss

   Publications  Book References:  18
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Robert Kipniss
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art Times New Art Books December 2004 Steiner, Raymond J No
ARTnews Bubbling Over in Talent September 2004 Baker, Kenneth Yes
18 Book References for Robert Kipniss
Year Author Title Pages Color
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
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
2004 Pichee & Grace Robert Kipniss Intaglios 1982-2004 184 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1996 Printmaking Experiences in Printmaking Today 0 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1981 (Lithos by Robert Kipniss) Selected Poems of Rainer Marie Rilke 0 No
1981 Lundgren, Richard Robert Kipniss: The Graphic Work, Recent Prints, 1980-81 0 No
1980 Lunde, Karl (preface) Robert Kipniss: The Graphic Work (Catalogue Raisonne) 0 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1966 Graves, Robert Robert Graves: Collected Poems (Robert Kipniss-Cover Illustrator) 0 Yes
1964 Crowell, Thomas Y Poems of Emily Dickinson (Illustrations by R Kipniss) 0 No
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