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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”.
(Biography provided by Dog & Horse Fine Art)
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Artist: Robert Zakanitch
Untitled Four Panel Suite (Quadtych) by Robert Zakanitch
By Robert Zakanitch
Located in Hudson, NY
This work is comprised of four 36" x 34" canvases, which combine into a quadtych measuring 72" x 67". Provenance: Private collection, California, 1974-2017. The artist responded to...
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1970s Abstract Robert Zakanitch Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled - Mostly Mozart '77
By Robert Zakanitch
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Robert Zakanitch was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and now lives and works in New York City. Zakanitch began exhibiting in the late 1960s with Color Field paintings, but he first achieved real note as one of the founders of the Pattern and Decoration movement in the mid 1970s. When Zakanitch took up decorative imagery, he had been working as a color field abstractionist faithful to the Minimalist grid as the structural system of his painting. Once into decoration, he retained both his color sophistication and his respect for structure but translated the latter into a free, often organic floral motif rendered in a painterly fashion. In 1975, Robert Zakanitch met Miriam Schapiro during a term of guest teaching at the University of California in San Diego, and early the following year in New York the two painters organized the Pattern and Decoration Artists. The group held their first meeting in a SoHo loft...
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1980s Robert Zakanitch Art

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Screen

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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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Robert Zakanitch Art

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Gouache, Graphite

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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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Robert Zakanitch Art

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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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Robert Zakanitch-Cascading Vines-HAND SIGNED SERIGRAPH
By Robert Zakanitch
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sku: LC1193-B Artist: Robert Zakanitch Title: Cascading Vines Year: 1977 Signed: Yes Medium: Serigraph Paper Size: 64 x 40 inches ( 162.56 x 101.6 cm ) Image Size: 64 x 40 inches ( 1...
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20th Century Contemporary Robert Zakanitch Art

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Screen

Untitled - Mostly Mozart '77
By Robert Zakanitch
Located in Santa Fe, NM
The floral image of Mozart 77 appeared on the final Mostly Mozart poster—an offset lithograph in a large edition—this serigraph is considerably ra...
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1970s Robert Zakanitch Art

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Screen

Untitled (Yellow Feather), Screenprint by Robert Zakanitch
By Robert Zakanitch
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Zakanitch, American (1935 - ) Title: Untitled (Yellow Feather) Year: 1983 Medium: Screenprint, signed, dated, and numbered in pencil Edi...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Robert Zakanitch Art

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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). 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. Robert Zakanitch was born in 1935 in Elizabeth, New Jersey and grew up in Rahway. He lived and worked in New York City. At the time of his June 3 through September 17, 2017 exhibition in the Hudson River Museum, he had recently moved his residence and studio to Yonkers, New York In the late 1960s he began experimenting with Color Field painting but would go on to be one of the founders of the Pattern and Decoration movement in the mid 1970s. While working in the Color Field he was strict to adhering to an abstract style inspired by Minimalism until he learned about decorative imagery. He kept the same color schemes and structures, but incorporated floral motif and a more painterly style. He was one of the original painters of the Pattern and Decoration movements of the 1970s. (along with Cynthia Carlson...
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