Robert Zakanitch Art
American, b. 1935
Robert Zakanitch has been exhibiting in New York since 1965. He is one of the founders of the pattern and decorative movement. He has had group exhibitions at the Whitney Annual, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. His work can be found in permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Albright Knox Museum, Brooklyn Museum and the Tate Gallery, London. He has had one-man shows in Paris, Basel, Zürich, Berlin, and Koln and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995. Most contemporary art history books include Robert Zakanitch.
In 2003, as with his important paintings of pattern and decoration, he exhibited his "Aggressive Goodness" acrylic and gouache paintings a series of dog paintings which show that art can lift the human spirit. In his own words his dog paintings are “to remind us of our compassion and evoke nurturing, caring, sentimentality, romance, kindness, etiquette (that’s right, etiquette), sweetness, respect, beauty and the sense of well being”.to
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Artist: Robert Zakanitch
Contemporary, sentimental painting of a red Dachshund with graphite drawings
By Robert Zakanitch
Located in Charleston, US
"Almost Dachshund" a sentimental dog painting by Robert Zakanitch a founder of the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970's believes in painting subjects of beauty with delicate...
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Big Post Minimalist Pattern and Decoration Abstract Lithograph Robert Zakanitch
By Robert Zakanitch
Located in Surfside, FL
Robert Rahway Zakanitch (American b. 1935),
Les Delices de Fragonard
1988
Hand signed and numbered from edition of 45
Dimensions: 36.5 X 48
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Robert Zakanitch-Cascading Vines-HAND SIGNED SERIGRAPH
By Robert Zakanitch
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Cascading Vines" by Robert Zakanitch is a large, vibrant serigraph (also known as a silk-screen or screen print) in colors, published by the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts i...
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Contemporary, sentimental painting of a Terrier with graphite drawings
By Robert Zakanitch
Located in Charleston, US
"Kinda a Terrier" a sentimental dog painting by Robert Zakanitch a founder of the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970's believes in painting subjects of beauty with delicate ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Robert Zakanitch Art
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Contemporary, sentimental painting of a Shit Tzu with graphite drawings
By Robert Zakanitch
Located in Charleston, US
"Shih Tzu" a sentimental dog painting by Robert Zakanitch a founder of the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970's believes in painting subjects of beauty with delicate patterns as well as animals. This Shih Tzu dog charms along with Zakanitch's graphite drawings depicting the dog in different positions. Zakanitch was an original exhibitor at Holly Solomon...
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"Split Level V" (Border Series) c1981 Acrylic on Paper by Robert Zakanitch
By Robert Zakanitch
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 60 3/4"H x 46 1/2"W #888
Frame Sz: 62 1/2"H x 51"W x 1 3/4"D
Signed by the artist: LR
w/ The Harcus Gallery 7 Newbury Street Boston Mass label
Weight: 35lbs
*Requires "W...
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1980s Abstract Robert Zakanitch Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
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Robert Rahway Zakanitch (born 1935) is an American painter and was one of the founders of the Pattern and Decoration movement. His work is held in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.
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1980s Post-Minimalist Robert Zakanitch Art
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"Hearts of Swan"
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signed and dated lower right, pencil "RR Zakanitch '80- '81"
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sheet 69.6 h x 57.8 w cm
Tyler Graphics: Catalogue Raisonné, 1974–1985. New York, 1987.
Robert Rahway Zakanitch (born 1935) is an American painter and was one of the founders of the Pattern and Decoration...
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1980s Post-Minimalist Robert Zakanitch Art
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Lithograph, Screen, Stencil
Post Minimalist Pattern and Decoration Abstract Screen Print Lithograph Stencil
By Robert Zakanitch
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Double Geese Mountain
(this piece is on the website of the Met, Metropolitan Museum NYC)
Screenprint, lithograph, stencil, 1981
Tyler Graphics: Catalogue Raisonné, 1974–1985. New York, 1987, p. 369, no. 614: RZ3, ill. (color).
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