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Mark Knudsen
San Rafael Reef #2

2018

$2,200
£1,654.22
€1,920.95
CA$3,072.25
A$3,407.36
CHF 1,789.38
MX$41,844.77
NOK 22,651.81
SEK 21,360.96
DKK 14,332.43
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San Rafael Reef #2, acrylic on panel, 11 x 37 1/2 inches, $2,200 “It is my feeling that the desert country of the American West is too large, too wild, too gorgeous to be encompassed by traditional landscape painting. Our inherited aesthetic defines beauty in landscape as green and arable land or grand, breathtaking places. I feel the need to expand that definition. I want to portray the desert as it is right now; to dispense with the limitations of what has come before, to quietly point out the beauty of places that are harsh and forbidding to habitation but express an aesthetic of the wild. I strive to go beyond the sentimentality that often defines our images of the West. The scale of many of my pieces (an extreme horizontal) is a compositional strategy to capture the vastness of these places.” – M. Knudsen Mark Knudsen studied fine art at the University of Utah in1969 and ‘70. Soon after, he took a position in the Art department at the Salt Lake Tribune and became Head of Design Features in 1989. In 2004, he retired to become a full-time artist. He now spends his time in the studio painting alongside his wife and fellow artist, Leslie Thomas.
  • Creator:
    Mark Knudsen (1946, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2018
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 37.5 in (95.25 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Salt Lake City, UT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU154329276942

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