J. E. "Jim" Knauf (CO 1948-) left California in 1966 to attend art school at Northern Arizona University. While studying the technical aspects of drawing and painting he traveled the back roads of... Read full biography
J. E. "Jim" Knauf (CO 1948-) left California in 1966 to attend art school at Northern Arizona University. While studying the technical aspects of drawing and painting he traveled the back roads of the Navajo, Hopi and Apache reservations observing the many characters he met along the way. He also... Read full biography
J. E. "Jim" Knauf (CO 1948-) left California in 1966 to attend art school at Northern Arizona University. While studying the technical aspects of drawing and painting he traveled the back roads of the Navajo, Hopi and Apache reservations observing the many characters he met along the way. He also explored Arizona's rural mining and ranching communities, constantly gathering personal impressions of the West and its inhabitant. The innate power of western image still grips artist and viewer... Read full biography
J. E. "Jim" Knauf (CO 1948-) left California in 1966 to attend art school at Northern Arizona University. While studying the technical aspects of drawing and painting he traveled the back roads of the Navajo, Hopi and Apache reservations observing the many characters he met along the way. He also explored Arizona's rural mining and ranching communities, constantly gathering personal impressions of the West and its inhabitant. The innate power of western image still grips artist and viewer alikeNative American figure, cowboys, cowgirls, horses, rodeo riders, and the southwestern landscapes. Knauf has developed a very contemporary style is capture images of the "old West." Knauf's work explores the delicate play between form and abstraction.... Read full biography
J. E. "Jim" Knauf (CO 1948-) left California in 1966 to attend art school at Northern Arizona University. While studying the technical aspects of drawing and painting he traveled the back roads of the Navajo, Hopi and Apache reservations observing the many characters he met along the way. He also explored Arizona's rural mining and ranching communities, constantly gathering personal impressions of the West and its inhabitant. The innate power of western image still grips artist and viewer alikeNative American figure, cowboys, cowgirls, horses, rodeo riders, and the southwestern landscapes. Knauf has developed a very contemporary style is capture images of the "old West." Knauf's work explores the delicate play between form and abstraction. His dancing figures in full-feathered regalia whirl through the paint; his bronco riders burst through the picture plane from some mysterious... Read full biography
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
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