Garden Shadows
Mezzotint
12 x 9.25"
Late Afternoon
Mezzotint
4.5 x 4"
The Small Nocturn Mezzotint
4 x 4.5"
Upwards
Mezzotint
4.5 x 6"

Robert Kipniss, painter and printmaker, was born in New York City in 1931. He creates essentially monochromatic, stylized vistas with natural and architectural elements intended to evoke an elegiac, nearly surrealistic mood in haunting, silent landscapes; the melancholy of nostalgia. Trees, in mid and far-distance, form clusters or act as misty individuals containing a haunted, indefinable presence, witnesses to the foreground drama of more specific shape, form and detail, often a close-up tree.