Robert Zakanitch Paintings
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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Contemporary, sentimental painting of a Terrier with graphite drawings
By Robert Zakanitch
Located in Charleston, US
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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 Paintings
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Paper, Acrylic
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