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About Robert Kipniss
- Robert Kipniss (born Brooklyn, New York, February 1, 1931) is an American painter and printmaker.
- His mature paintings, lithographs, mezzotints, and drypoints share stylistic characteristics and subject matter and typically depict trees seen close up or at varying distances in fields.
- Other works show one or more houses in a landscape or town setting.
- Some are interiors with a view toward a window or with a still life set close to one, frequently with a landscape beyond.
- No human figures are present, and all forms are reduced to essentials.
- The time is often dusk or nighttime.
- Kipniss' use of exceptionally subtle black and white tones or, less often, lightly toned hues creates an overall atmospheric effect.
- His works have been described as conveying solitude and inward experience.
- Kipniss often uses the subject matter of a painting in a lithograph or mezzotint, sometimes with variations.
- His paintings date from the early 1950s.
- His main body of prints are lithographs and mezzotints, the former dating from 1968 into 1990, the latter since 1990.Since 1998 Kipniss has lived and maintained a studio on the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York.
- That year he also set up a print studio at his weekend home in northwestern Connecticut.
- He married his second wife, Laurie Lisle, a writer, in 1994.
- He has four children, Max, Ivan, Ruby, and Benjamin, from his first marriage, in 1954, to Jean Prutton.
- They were divorced in 1982.
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