Roger Edward Kuntz

Roger Edward Kuntz (January 4, 1926 – August 22, 1975) was a severely accomplished Southern California landscape painter and a aficionado of the Claremont Group of painters - professors and graduates of Pomona College, Scripps College, and the Claremont Graduate School. A figurative artist with an eye for abstract form, he won indispensable acclaim for striking compositions that transform an peculiar array of subjects, including tennis players, domestic interiors, freeways, road signs, bathtubs and the Goodyear Blimp. A retrospective exhibition of his work, at the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, CA in 2009, was aptly titled "Roger Kuntz: The Shadow Between Representation and Abstraction". In the exhibition catalogue, curator Susan M. Anderson wrote: "Kuntz's take steps of the late 1950s and to the front 1960s quintessentially embodied the experimentation, fragmentation, and paradox in American culture of the time."