Robert Kipniss

Born: Brooklyn, New York, 1931

Selected Public Collections (Paintings, Prints, Drawings)

  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
  • The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts
  • The British Museum, London
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
  • Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford,
    California
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
  • McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
  • The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, New York
  • Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
  • The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
  • National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
  • The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
  • New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • The New York Public Library, Print Collection, New York, New York
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
  • Pinakothek der Moderne, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich
  • Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London (diploma piece); housed at the
    Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  • Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
  • Syracuse University Art Gallery, Syracuse, New York
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
  • Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Selected One-Man Shows (Paintings, Prints, Drawings)

  • Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, 2010, 2003
  • Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2009, 2007, 2004, 2002, 2001, 2000
  • The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, 2008
  • The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, 2007
  • The Old Print Shop, New York, New York, 2007, 2004
  • Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, 2006
  • Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums,
    Richmond, Virginia, 2006
  • New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2006
    (A retrospective of prints plus thirty-five recent paintings)
  • Beadleston Gallery, New York, New York, 2003, 2001
  • Bassenge Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 1999
  • The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1999
  • Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas, 1999
  • Gerhard Wurzer Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1999, 1997, 1988, 1986, 1981
  • Molesey Gallery, East Molesey, Surrey, England, 1999, 1995
  • Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita, Texas, 1997
    (A retrospective of paintings and graphics, 1950s-1990s)
  • Redfern Gallery, London, 1999, 1995
  • Gallery New World, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1998, 1995
  • Hexton Gallery, New York, New York, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994
  • The Century Association, New York, New York, 1996
  • Taunhaus Gallery, Osaka and Kanazawa, Japan, 1994
  • OK Harris Works of Art, New York, New York, 1991
  • Enatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1990, 1988, 1987
  • Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio, 1985, 1983
  • ICA, Nagoya, Japan, 1984
  • Bruce Museum of Art, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1981
  • Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York, 1980, 1977
  • Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, 1980, 1975
  • Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio, 1979
  • Associated American Artists (AAA), New York, New York, 1977
    (A graphics retrospective, 1967-1977)
  • Galeria de Arte, Lima, Peru, 1977
  • Galeria San Diego, Bogota, Colombia, S.A., 1977, 1975
  • “9″ Galeria de Arte, Lima, Peru, 1976
  • Centro de Arte Actual, Pereira, Colombia, 1975
  • Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1975
  • FAR Gallery, New York, New York, 1975, 1972, 1970, 1968
  • The Contemporaries, New York, New York, 1967, 1966, 1960, 1959
  • Allen R. Hite Institute, University of Louisville, Kentucky, 1965
  • Alan Auslander Gallery, New York, New York, 1963
  • Harry Salpeter Gallery, New York, New York, 1953
  • Joe Gans Gallery, New York, New York, 1951

Honors:

  • Elected to: Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London, 1998
  • National Academy of Design, New York, New York, 1980
  • Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, Honorary Doctorate, 1989
  • Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, Honorary Doctorate, 1979
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, Society of American Graphic Artists,
    New York, NY, 2007

Publications

  • Robert Kipniss: Paintings 1950-2005
    • With essays by John Bullard and Richard Boyle
    • Hudson Hills Press, 2007
  • Seen in Solitude: Robert Kipniss Prints From the James F. White Collection
    • Edited and with an essay by Daniel Piersol
    • New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA 2005
  • Robert Kipniss: Intaglios 1982-2004
    • With an essay and edited by Trudie Grace, and an essay
    • By Thomas Piché, Hudson Hills Press, 2004
  • Robert Kipniss: The Graphic Work
    • A catalog raisonne, preface by Karl Lunde, Abaris Books, 1980
  • Robert Kipniss: The Graphic work, Recent Prints, 1980-1981
    • Edited by Richard Lundgren, Art Connections Gallery, 1981
  • “Printmaking Experiences” an essay by Robert Kipniss
    • in Printmaking Today, Spring 1996, London, UK
  • Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
    • Limited Editions Club, New York City, 1981
    • 10 Original Lithographs bound in each volume
  • Poems of Emily Dickinson
    • Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell, New York City, 1964
    • 26 Drawings
  • Robert Graves: Collected Poems
    • Doubleday Anchor, New York City, 1966
    • Cover painting