"Summer 1975" 11 7/8 x 14 3/4" Lithograph-239/260-Robert Kipness

Description: This is a 11 7/8 by 14 3/4 inch (image size) lithograph known as "Summer 1975" and done by New York artist Robert Kipness. It is number 239 of 260 and is pencil-signed. It is in very good condition. The paper is slightly wavy, not damaged, which re-matting should easily fix. I did not open frame which measures 19 1/2 x 22 inches. It has a plexiglass window which should be replaced. It will be shipped via UPS for $35. See the photos. 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.Light and darkness are clearly Kipniss' compositionally constructive elements. They also exist as contestants in the emotional drama at the heart of each work of art. The contrast, and sometimes combat, between these two opposites, symbolically represent with blackness -- ideas of threat, fear, trouble, evil; with whiteness safety, redemption, fulfillment and good. In his career, Robert Kipniss has had over 40 one-man shows since the first in New York in 1951, including an important retrospective exhibition at the Associated American Artist Gallery, New York in 1977. Many of these one-man exhibitions have been mounted by over 50 museums in the United States, South America and Europe, including the Chicago Art Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modem Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of Congress and British Museum in London.Robert Kipniss is represented in the permanent collections of the institutions above, among many others, as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Detroit Art Institute; Yale University Museum; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; and the New Orleans Museum of Art.He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1980, and to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London in 1998Robert Kipniss can be referenced in numerous publications, including Who's Who in American Art from the 1950s to the present, and multiple reviews in periodicals like Art News, Art in America and Art Forum. There are also three important catalogues raisonne published on his work.Robert Kipniss has received many awards:1965 Ohio University National Drawing Show, Purchase Prize1976 National Academy of Design, New York City, The Ralph Fabri Prize1978 The Print Club of Philadelphia, Charles M Lea Prize1979 Charlotte Printmakers Society, Purchase AwardSociety of American Graphic Artists, Printmaking AwardWittenberg University, Springfield, OH, Honorary Doctorate1980 Elected to the National Academy of Design, New York CityAudubon Artists, New York City, Silver MedalNational Academy of Design, New York City, The Leo Meissner Prize1981 National Academy of Design, New York City, The Leo Meissner Prize1983 Audubon Artists, New York City, Medal of Honour1988 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City: Speicher-Hassam PurchaseAward1989 Illinois College, Honorary Doctorate1995 Albany Print Club Purchase Award, Albany NY1996 Albany Print Club Presentation Print Commission1997 Audubon Artists, New York City, The Louis Lozowick AwardThe Boston Printmakers, Juror's CommendatioNational Academy of Design, New York City, Certificate of Merit1998 Audubon Artists, New York City, The Daniel Serra-Badue Memorial AwardSilvermine Guild 22nd National Print Biennial, CT, Juror's Award1999 The Boston Printmakers, The Rembrandt Graphics AwardNational Academy of Design, New York City, The Cannon PrizeRobert Kipniss publications include1964 Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas Y Crowell, New York City, 26 Drawings1966 Robert Graves: Collected Poems, Doubleday Anchor, New York City, Cover Painting 1980 Robert Kipniss, The Graphic Work, A catalogue raisonné, preface by Karl Lunde,Abaris Books1980-81 Robert Kipniss: The Graphic Work, Recent Prints, 1980-81, Edited by RichardLundgren, Art Connections Gallery1981 Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Limited Editions Club, New York City, 10original lithographs bound in each volume1996 Printmaking Experiences in Printmaking Today, Spring 1996, London

Price: 285 USD

Location: Westfield, New Jersey

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