A resident of Sacramento, California where he has a studio adjacent to his home, Kondos is known for bold, modernist landscape paintings---brightly lit canvases with big cobalt-blue skies, large... Read full biography
A resident of Sacramento, California where he has a studio adjacent to his home, Kondos is known for bold, modernist landscape paintings---brightly lit canvases with big cobalt-blue skies, large areas of solid color, flowing rhythm, and simple design. His work is intended to suggest lonely,... Read full biography
A resident of Sacramento, California where he has a studio adjacent to his home, Kondos is known for bold, modernist landscape paintings---brightly lit canvases with big cobalt-blue skies, large areas of solid color, flowing rhythm, and simple design. His work is intended to suggest lonely, solitary aspects of the land. He was born to Greek immigrant parents in Lynn, Massachusetts, and moved with his family to Sacramento, California in 1927. His parents encouraged his early art talent, and by... Read full biography
A resident of Sacramento, California where he has a studio adjacent to his home, Kondos is known for bold, modernist landscape paintings---brightly lit canvases with big cobalt-blue skies, large areas of solid color, flowing rhythm, and simple design. His work is intended to suggest lonely, solitary aspects of the land. He was born to Greek immigrant parents in Lynn, Massachusetts, and moved with his family to Sacramento, California in 1927. His parents encouraged his early art talent, and by 1941, he was attending Sacramento Junior College to study art, but was interrupted by three years on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. He later completed his degree, spent a year at the Art Center College of Design in Los... Read full biography
A resident of Sacramento, California where he has a studio adjacent to his home, Kondos is known for bold, modernist landscape paintings---brightly lit canvases with big cobalt-blue skies, large areas of solid color, flowing rhythm, and simple design. His work is intended to suggest lonely, solitary aspects of the land. He was born to Greek immigrant parents in Lynn, Massachusetts, and moved with his family to Sacramento, California in 1927. His parents encouraged his early art talent, and by 1941, he was attending Sacramento Junior College to study art, but was interrupted by three years on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. He later completed his degree, spent a year at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and then went to California State University in Sacramento, intending to teach college, which he did at Sa... Read full biography
Gregory Kondos - Artist Info
About Gregory Kondos: Books
Books & Publications (4)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Yosemite: Art of an American Icon (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Scott, Amy (Editor); Brian Bibby, William Deverell, et all
221 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Leading the West One Hundred Contemporary Painters & Sculptors
1997
Hagerty, Donald J
213 pages (color)
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History