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Michael Knigin
MIchael Knigin Abstract Pop Art Surrealism Acrylic Painting

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Michael Jay Knigin (American, 1942 – 2011) Untitled (abstract) Mixed media painting on paper, includes acrylic, watercolor and gouache Estate stamp on the reverse (not hand signed) Dimensions: 13.75" W x 16.5" H Michael Knigin was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, NY. He attended and graduated from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. He received a Ford Foundation Grant to study fine art lithography at the renowned Tamarind Lithography Workshop, in Los Angeles and collaborate with Rufino Tamayo. After graduating college in 1966, Knigin started teaching at the Pratt Graphic Center in Manhattan, an extension of the Pratt Institute, devoted to fine arts and graphic prints. There he started a fine art lithography workshop. After a year and a half he opened his own publishing company, Chiron Press, and added a silkscreen printing facility. This was the first facility in the United States that combined lithography and screen-printing. The shop remained in existence for over seven years, printing and publishing editions for the most renowned contemporary artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Larry Poons, Tom Wesselmann and Paul Jenkins. After selling Chiron Press in 1974, Knigin was invited by the Israel Museum and the Jerusalem Foundation to establish the first professional lithography workshop in Israel, the Burston Graphics Art Centre in Jerusalem, and to train a group of young Israeli artists. 1975-76 The Burston Graphics Center, Jerusalem, Israel, 1972 Professor Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1967- 2003 Full professor Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1996 Adjunct Professor L.I.U., Southampton, N.Y. In 1988 he was appointed to the NASA Art Team and was sent to the Kennedy Space Center to visually interpret the launch of the space shuttle Discovery, celebrating NASA's return to space after the Challenger disaster in 1986. In 1991 he was recalled to interpret the touchdown of the space shuttle Atlantis at Edwards Air Force Base. Along with these honors, he has received many awards including Cleo Award for art direction, a fellowship of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, an Art and Technology Grant, two Certificates of Merit from the National Society of Illustrators. SELECTED COLLECTIONS the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Albright-Knox Museum, The National Collection of Fine Arts, The Carnegie Mellon Institute, New York University, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Minnesota Museum of Art, The Library of Congress, The Mexico City Museum of Modern Art, The Mint Museum, U.S. Air Force, The Brooklyn Museum, The Cooper Hewitt Museum, The Israel Museum, Playboy Enterprises, Bank of Tokyo Smithsonian Museum of American Art. His work has been featured in many publications such as the New York Times, Art in America, and Art News. He has also co-authored 2 books on lithography, "Contemporary Lithographic Workshops Around the World" and "The Technique of Fine Art Lithography", published by Van Nostrand Reinhold.
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