Robert Kipniss

The Artist Book Foundation

North Adams, Massachusetts 

 

"Robert Kipniss: Shades of Nature" 

May 15, 2023 - March 30, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

Windbreaks (1957), oil on board, 30 x 40 inches © Robert Kipniss

 

"Collection Focus: Lithography"

Dec 2, 2023  - Apr 7, 2024

Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO

 

"Solemn Spaces: Works by Robert Kipniss"

Dec 2, 2023 - Feb 24, 2024

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN

 

The Fort Wayne Museum of Art

Fort Wayne, Indiana

 

"The Whispering Light"

Oct 29, 2016 - Jan 22, 2017

Major paintings retrospective, download the exhibition pamphlet

 

 

The Fort Wayne Museum of Art also holds a significant body of the artist's work, one of five artists to be included in the museum's Special Collections and Archives Initiative.

The New Orleans Museum of Art

New Orleans, Louisiana

 

"Seen in Solitude: Robert Kipniss Prints from the James F. White Collection"

Mar 4 - May 14, 2006

A retrospective of 86 prints plus thirty-five paintings

 

Traveled to: Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Virginia, 2006; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, 2006; The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, 2007; The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, 2008-09

 

 

 

 

Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia. 2016, "Recent Acquisitions: Prints by Robert Kipniss"

Palitz Gallery, Syracuse University Art Galleries at Lubin House, New York, New York, and Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, New York, 2015-16, "Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss" (exh cat)

Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon, 2016, "Robert Kipniss: Mezzotints"

Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2011, "Robert Kipniss: Mezzotints and Paintings"

Springfield Center for the Arts, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, 2011, "Robert Kipniss from the Wittenberg Collection, 1972-1999"

Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU Texas, Wichita Falls, Texas, 2010, "Robert Kipniss: Light and Shadow" (37 prints from the museum's collection)

Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, 2010, "Robert Kipniss: Works on Paper and Canvas"

Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, 2010, "Robert Kipniss from the Wittenberg Collection"

The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1999, "Robert Kipniss"

Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2004, "Robert Kipniss Intaglios: A Retrospective"

Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU Texas, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1997, "Robert Kipniss: The Image and the Medium" (exh cat)

Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas, 1999, "Transitions: Drawings, 1960-64 / Robert Kipniss" (exh pamphlet)

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1999. "Robert Kipniss"

The Century Association, New York, New York, 1996, "Robert Kipniss Intaglios"

Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, 1989, "The Art of Robert Kipniss" (exh pamphlet)

The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1981, "The Inner Landscape: The Paintings and Lithographs of Robert Kipniss" (exh pamphlet)

Canton Art Institute (now Canton Museum of Art), Canton, Ohio, 1979, "Robert Kipniss Lithographs," (exh pamphlet)

Springfield Art Center, Springfield, Ohio, 1981, "Robert Kipniss: Inner Landscapes" (exh pamphlet)

Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio, 1985, "Robert Kipniss: A Collection of Recent Prints" (exh pamphlet)

Wittenburg University, Springfield, Ohio, 1979, Kipniss: An Exhibition of Lithographs In Celebration of the Rededication of Koch Hall" (exh pamphlet)

Centro de Arte Actual, Pereira, Colombia, 1975, "Robert Kipniss" (exh pamphlet)

Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, 1975, "Robert Kipniss: óleos et litografías" (4 paintings and 45 lithographs, exh pamphlet)

Allen R. Hite Institute, University of Louisville, Kentucky, 1965, "Robert Kipniss: Landscapes"

 

The Gallery at The Met Store, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2022, "SAGA l The Society of American Graphic Artists" (exh cat)

The British Museum, London, and four additional UK institutions, "Living With Art: The Alexander Walker Collection," 2020-21 (exh cat, curated and with essay by Catherine Daunt, 4 works with commentary and illustrations, pages 146-47)

The Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, 2017, "Recent Acquisitions"

Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York, 2016, "In Print" (exh cat) printed and online

Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, 2016, "Cornucopia: Still Lifes from the Collection"

Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, 2015, "Graphic Appeal: Modern Prints from the Permanent Collection" (exh pamphlet)

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2015, "Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection"

The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi, 2015, "Escape to Tranquility: The New American Landscape" (exh pamphlet)

Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Virginia, 2015, "Sense of Place: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection"

Figge Art Museum, Davenport Iowa, 2015, "Eye on UI: Brodsky, Dorfman, Kipniss, Lanyon"

Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida, 2014, "Conversations: Selections from the Permanent Collection" and "Recent Acquisitions"

Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, 2013, "New Acquisitions"

Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York, 2013, "50/50 Celebrating Fifty Years of the Hofstra University Museum" (exh cat)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, 2013, 2010, "Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection"

Hofstra University Museum of Art, Hempstead, New York, 2012, "The Disappearing Landscape: Selections from the Hofstra University Museum Collection," (exh cat)

The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut, 2011, "Works from the Permanent Collection" 

Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Virginia, 2010, "Surface Tension: Pattern, Texture, and Rhythm in Art from the Collection"

Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, 2009, "Icons of the Permanent Collection from Coast to Coast: American Landscapes"

Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, New York, and Palitz Gallery, Syracuse University Art Galleries at Lubin House, New York, New York, 2009, "Recent Acquisitions from the Syracuse University Art Collection" (exh pamphlet)

Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida and The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2007-2008, "Visions: Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings" (exh cat curated by and with an essay by Townsend Wolfe, illustration page 106)

Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Cortland, 2007, "From Albers to Picasso: A Selection of 20th Century Prints" (exh cat)

New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut, 2006, "Recent Acquisitions: Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints"

Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Virginia, 2006, "2006 Biennial of American Prints"
The Art Students League, New York, New York, NY, 2006-08, "Highlights from the Permanent Collection"

Traveled to: Owensboro Museum of Art, Owensboro, Kentucky; Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, Massachusetts; Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, Iowa; Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont; Hillstrom Museum of Art, St. Peter, Minnesota; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida; Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana; The Long Island Museums of American Art, Stony Brook, New York

The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, The State of New Jersey, New Brunswick, 2005, "The Color of Night"

The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 2005, "The Power of Place: The Berkshires"

National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, New York, 2004, "Contemporary Prints from the Collection of the National Academy Museum" (45 prints chosen from the collection of 1,500)

The Forbes Galleries, New York, New York, 2004, "A Record of What Has Been Accomplished: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Art Students League of New York" (exh pamphlet)

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, 2003, "Object Lessons: Additions to the Collection, 1997-2002"

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, 2003, "Celebrating a Decade of Growth: Selections from the Orlando Museum of Art's Permanent Collections"

Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, 2002, "Pressed: Intaglio"

USB PaineWebber Art Gallery, New York, New York, 2002, "A Century on Paper: Prints by Art Students League Artists, 1901-2001" (exh cat, illustration page 19)

Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia, "Selected Recent Acquisitions," 2002

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, "Acquisitions in Prints and Drawings," 1996-2000," 2001

Royal Academy, London, "Royal Academy Summer Show," 2001

The British Museum, London, 2000, "Recent Acquisitions"

Grace, Trudie A. Paper Trail: Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors in the National Academy of Design, (New York: National Academy of Design, 2000), collections cat, illustration and commentary, page 41

National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, New York, 1999, "Treasures Revealed: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Works on Paper" (exh brochure)

Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1999, "Recent Acquisitions"

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1999, "No Day Without a Line, the History of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, 1880-1999" (exh cat, curated by Martin Hopkinson, with an essay by Clare Tilbury)

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York, 1988, "Invitational Exhibition"

Gibbes Art Gallery (now Museum of Art), Charleston, South Carolina, 1981, "Celebrating the National Endowment for the Humanities 15th Anniversary"

Tahir Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1981, "American Self-Portraits" (exh cat)

Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, 1979, "A Northeast Folio: Exhibition of Works by Contemporary Botanical Printmakers" (benefit portfolio with essay, fully illustrated catalogue)

Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, 1978, "Grabadores Norte Americanos: Will Barnet, Warrington Colescott, Robert Kipniss, Kenjilo Nanao" (exh cat); "II Bienal Americana de Artes Graficas," 1976

Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka-Dolac, Yugoslavia, 1976, "International Exhibition of Original Drawings"

Kalamazoo Art Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1975

Westmoreland Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1974, 1973, 1972

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, 1972, "Recent Acquisitions"

New York Public Library, New York, New York, 1972, "Recent Acquisitions"

American Federation of Arts, "Moods of Light," 1963-1965

Traveled to: Vanderbilt Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee; Andrew Dickson White Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, Iowa; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah;  University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Paul Sargent Gallery, Charlestown, Illinois

Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1964, "Painting and Sculpture Today"

Tweed Gallery, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota, 1962, "Contemporary Artists"

The Sheldon Swope Gallery, Terre Haute, Indiana, 1961

Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio, 1957

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, 1957

Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio, 1953, "The Seventeenth Annual New Year Show" (exh cat)