
Small Lagoon
Oil on canvas
14" x 14"
15.25" x 15.25" framed
Waterways
Oil and color pencil on paper
9" x 12"
Untitled 1
Oil and encaustic on canvas
28" x 38" framed
Coastal Rocks IIl
Oil on canvas
20.5" x 22.5" framed
Lines
Oil on canvas
41" x 46" framed
Patch of Blue
Oil on canvas
34" x 34"
Untitled
Oil and encaustic on canvas
19" x 35" framed
New England, Three Views
Oil on canvas
51" x 27" framed
Trip to China Sea
Oil and encaustic on canvas
15" x 38" framed
Black and White #14
Enamel on panel
11" x 33" framed
Island, Maine (1953)
Gouache on paper
13.5" x 17.5" framed
The Park
Ink and watercolor on paper
15.75" x 18.5" framed
Nude, On Side
Charcoal and watercolor on paper
15.5" x 18.5" framed
Trees
Mixed media on paper
13" x 18.5" framed
Construction with Polls
Print
12" x 13.5" framed
Cape Landscape
Mixed media on paper
15" x 17" framed
Robert Knipschild (American, 1927-2004) was born in Freeport, Illinois. He studied at the University of Wisconsin, and at Cranbrook Academy of Art were he worked under Zoltan Sepeshy. In 1950, at the age of twenty-three, his work was selected for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s widely acclaimed exhibition “American Painting Today.” Since that time he has received wide recognition with over seventy-five one-man shows and several prizes in important competitive exhibitions. Knipschild’s work has been exhibited at the Boston Museum; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum, the Corcoran; De Young Museum, San Francisco; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Museum and Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
"Painting is hard–You must be willing to destroy that first solution if you wish to go deeper–beyond–to paint out those nice findings–to muddy it up–to scratch into it–to smash the nice things out of it. It is hard–it is painful–it is fraught with failure–but to go beyond has the lure of the sublime. To go beyond yourself to a new place–a land not yet seen"
Knipschild’s work has been included in important surveys of American Art including the Annuals of the Whitney Museum, the Carnegie Institute, the Walker Art Center, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Butler Museum, and the Kansas City Museum. He has also exhibited in museums in Europe, Japan, and Australia.
After a brief illness Robert Knipschild died on November 20, 2004. He was the director of graduate studies in Fine Art for the University of Cincinnati from 1967 until his retirement in 1991.