Robert Kipniss

Robert Kipniss (born Brooklyn, New York, February 1, 1931) is an American painter and printmaker. His grow old paintings, lithographs, mezzotints, and drypoints allocation stylistic characteristics and subject matter and typically depict trees seen close up or at changing distances in fields. Other works bill one or more houses in a landscape or town setting. Some are interiors similar to a view toward a window or taking into account a yet life set near to one, frequently in the same way as a landscape beyond. No human figures are present, and everything forms are edited to essentials. The grow old 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 following variations. His paintings date from the in front 1950s. His main body of prints are lithographs and mezzotints, the former dating from 1968 into 1990, the latter previously 1990.

Since 1998 Kipniss has lived and maintained a studio on the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York. That year he plus set in the works 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.