Acrylic on canvas, 2000, signed and inscribed to verso, gallery wrapped canvas.

69 x 64 in.

Richard Knowles was an accomplished painter and retired Professor of Art (Distinguished Emeritus) from the University of Memphis in Tennessee. Sketches and photographs of Greece, Borneo, Canadian coastlines, the bayous of the Deep South and mountains of Utah and New Mexico inspired many of his landscapes and abstract paintings. His aim as an artist was “to record the dynamic forces of the deserts, mountains, canyons, forests, and sea” he often visited. Water and rock in Knowles’ acrylics, water colors and charcoal drawings crash in all directions, spill over the edges and suggest powerful, complex emotions as well geologic rift and upheaval.

Good estate condition.