BACKGROUND
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A native Minnesotan, Robert Knudson took his formal art training at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, graduating in 1950. The world of advertising art, color photography, and business management occupied some thirteen years of his life. In September 1957, only a month after his first visit to the Southwest, Bob moved his family to Arizona. He worked in the business sector for some years, but in 1963, the overwhelming desire to paint ultimately brought him back to his first love to make a full commitment to his art. "I had to do it," Bob explained. "Everything the Southwest represented to me cried out for painting." Working in oils, acrylics, watercolors, and pastels throughout his long art career, Bob used them to express his passion for vibrant beauty and color of southwest landscapes. His work is characterized by luminous color and superb mastery of media and subject. Besides developing his own craft, Knudson has shared his knowledge and experience as an instructor of both classes and private students. Bob has shown his work in galleries in Arizona, Wyoming, New York, Texas, and New Mexico. His work has appeared in publications such as Arizona Highways, Southwest Art, and Western Art Digest, and can be found in major collections through the United States, both private and corporate. Biographical reviews include Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in the West, and others. |
"What I try to get in my paintings is the quality of light. Light defines drama and contrast. To me, it parallels life, highlights many thoughts about principles of changes, survival, eternality. Light sets the mood, the dynamic to any moment on the landscape, and suggests a grand theme. It's this that makes me grab my brushes, makes me paint." ~ Robert Knudson |
INVITATIONAL AND JURIED SHOWS
Grand Central Gallery - New York, NY
Seventh Arizona Annual - Yuma, AZ
Southwestern Invitational - Yuma, AZ
Northern Arizona University - Flagstaff, AZ
Tucson Art Center - Tucson, AZ
Third Annual Phippen Memorial - Prescott, AZ
William Penn Memorial Museum - Harrisburg, PA
Panhandle-Plains Museum - Canyon, TX
Riverside Art Museum - Riverside, CA
Mountain Oyster Club Annual Western Art Show - Tucson, AZ
Invitational Auction Shows, Scottsdale Artists' School - Scottsdale, AZ
WORK REPRODUCED
Arizona Highways magazine
They Came to Jerome book - Jerome Historical Society
Southwest Art magazine - cover painting & feature article 12/87
Western Art Digest magazine
Arizona Arts and Travel magazine
WORK IN COLLECTIONS
Allstate Insurance - Chicago, IL
Catalina Savings & Loan - Tucson, AZ
Dean Witter & Co. - New York
Glenn Close
Merrill-Lynch - New York
Mountain Oyster Club - Tucson, AZ (Artist Lifetime Honorary Member)
Mr. & Mrs. John K. Goodman
Mr. Lawrence Rockefeller
Museum of Northern Arizona - Flagstaff, AZ
Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans, LA
Orme Ranch School - Mayer, AZ
San Diego Museum of Art - San Diego, CA
Sears Corporate Office - Chicago, IL
The late Senator Barry Goldwater collection
Texas Tech University - Lubbock, TX
Time-DC Motor Freight - Lubbock, TX
Tucson Museum of Art - Tucson, AZ
William Penn Memorial Museum - Harrisburg, PA
Yavapai Medical Center - Prescott, AZ
Others
