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Born 1925. Known for: Landscape, figure, still life.
Wilbur Niewald has been dubbed "the Patriarch of the Kansas City Art World" by Juli√°n Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art. The 1970's was a decade pivotal to his identity... Read full biography
Wilbur Niewald has been dubbed "the Patriarch of the Kansas City Art World" by Juli√°n Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art. The 1970's was a decade pivotal to his identity as an artist, transitioning from a distinct abstract style to one more resolutely based on natural... Read full biography
Wilbur Niewald has been dubbed "the Patriarch of the Kansas City Art World" by Juli√°n Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art. The 1970's was a decade pivotal to his identity as an artist, transitioning from a distinct abstract style to one more resolutely based on natural observation. In addition to a career of creating exciting and influential works of his own, Niewald joined the Kansas City Art Institute's faculty in 1949, where over the course of several decades in a... Read full biography
Wilbur Niewald has been dubbed "the Patriarch of the Kansas City Art World" by Juli√°n Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art. The 1970's was a decade pivotal to his identity as an artist, transitioning from a distinct abstract style to one more resolutely based on natural observation. In addition to a career of creating exciting and influential works of his own, Niewald joined the Kansas City Art Institute's faculty in 1949, where over the course of several decades in a variety of roles (including the Chair of Painting and Printmaking) he helped shape KCAI pedagogy and prepare generations of contemporary artists.
Wilbur Niewald has been dubbed "the Patriarch of the Kansas City Art World" by Juli√°n Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art. The 1970's was a decade pivotal to his identity as an artist, transitioning from a distinct abstract style to one more resolutely based on natural observation. In addition to a career of creating exciting and influential works of his own, Niewald joined the Kansas City Art Institute's faculty in 1949, where over the course of several decades in a variety of roles (including the Chair of Painting and Printmaking) he helped shape KCAI pedagogy and prepare generations of contemporary artists.
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Wilbur Niewald has been dubbed "the Patriarch of the Kansas City Art World" by Juli√°n Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art.
The 1970's was a decade pivotal to his identity as an artist, transitioning from a distinct abstract style to one more resolutely based on natural observation. In addition to a career of creating exciting and influential works of his own, Niewald joined the Kansas City Art Institute's faculty in 1949, where over the course of several decades in a variety of roles (including the Chair of Painting and Printmaking) he helped shape KCAI pedagogy and prepare generations of contemporary artists.