Sheldon Statewide: Raymond Knaub
Sheldon Museum of Art
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Learn more about a work from the 2022-2023 Sheldon Statewide exhibition, “On The Road Again.” This painting is titled "March Fields" and was made by Raymond Knaub in 1996. Sheldon Statewide is an annual program through which artworks from the museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “On The Road Again” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Grand Island, York, Beatrice, Fremont, and Falls City.
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- [00:00:08.610]Raymond Knaub has had a unique path
- [00:00:10.800]to his artistic career.
- [00:00:12.450]He first attended Baylor University in Texas
- [00:00:15.090]on a track scholarship and studied math and engineering.
- [00:00:18.720]While there, he took a drawing class
- [00:00:20.310]that changed his path in life.
- [00:00:22.530]Knaub transferred to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- [00:00:25.350]where he completed a degree in art.
- [00:00:27.810]He went on to earn a master of fine arts
- [00:00:29.880]from the University of Colorado Boulder.
- [00:00:32.550]When seeking to find his place
- [00:00:34.170]in the art world stylistically,
- [00:00:36.000]he was guided by his roots in gearing Nebraska.
- [00:00:39.510]The Royal landscape there had a formed his visual taste
- [00:00:42.870]and shaped his future as a painter of local surroundings.
- [00:00:47.370]This quote from the artist can be applied
- [00:00:49.170]to many of his works
- [00:00:50.400]but it greatly illuminates March Fields.
- [00:00:53.580]The harmony of light and space combined
- [00:00:55.830]with a reverence for the land.
- [00:00:57.780]These are the elements which describe my paintings.
- [00:01:00.900]Based on actual places,
- [00:01:02.310]they are not exact renderings of place and time
- [00:01:05.130]but instead reflect a deeper interpretation
- [00:01:07.740]and a personal emotional experience of the moment.
- [00:01:11.910]The light in March Field suffuses the entire sky
- [00:01:15.090]causing a delicate pink and yellow hue of a rising sun.
- [00:01:19.080]We can also see the light gently resting
- [00:01:21.240]on the white farm buildings
- [00:01:22.620]and reflecting off the water resting in the field
- [00:01:25.080]to the left.
- [00:01:26.610]Space is depicted on a vast scale
- [00:01:29.370]as the view looks at a grand scope of the farm
- [00:01:31.800]as well as the sky
- [00:01:33.060]which occupies the top two thirds of the composition.
- [00:01:36.930]It is not difficult to imagine March Fields
- [00:01:39.120]depicting both a specific place in the real world
- [00:01:42.570]and an emotional experience of a moment.
- [00:01:45.750]As is often the case,
- [00:01:47.010]Knaub was influenced by other artists who came before him.
- [00:01:51.210]Two artists from Sheldon's collection
- [00:01:52.860]made a particular impression.
- [00:01:55.200]Edward Hopper, who's well known painting, Room in New York,
- [00:01:58.470]Knaub may have seen during his time
- [00:02:00.300]at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- [00:02:02.640]was an American realist who perhaps lent Knaub
- [00:02:05.070]his attention to quiet detail.
- [00:02:07.740]Andrew Wyeth, who painted this watercolor
- [00:02:10.080]called Spring Beauty
- [00:02:11.460]was a well known 20th century regionalist
- [00:02:14.190]who may have influenced Knaub's
- [00:02:15.810]own choice of subject matter.
- [00:02:19.080]Regionalism is defined as a movement in American art
- [00:02:22.440]that focused on local representational subject matter.
- [00:02:26.310]The first wave of regionalism
- [00:02:27.840]occurred in the 1930s and 40s.
- [00:02:30.870]March Fields was painted in 1996
- [00:02:33.570]during a second rising of the movement.
- [00:02:35.880]So it is considered an example of neo-regionalism.
- [00:02:39.630]The Midwest features heavily in regionalist art.
- [00:02:42.480]So Knaub is well located in this movement.
- [00:02:45.690]Does March Field reminds you of a place
- [00:02:47.520]in the region where you live?
- [00:02:49.200]If you were to become a regionalist artist,
- [00:02:51.420]what would you depict?
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