Robert Kaess (1923 - 1991)
Post War California artist, Robert Kaess studied at the University of California under Margaret Petersen, Erle Loran, and John Haley, receiving his B.F.A. in 1948 and M.F.A. in 1950. Kaess traveled to Europe in 1952, 53 to continue his art studies and paint. Kaess had a solo exhibition at The Arthur Toothe Gallery in London in 1953.
By the early 1950's Kaess turned to abstract paintings showing the influence's of his University of California, Berkeley and European studies in 1952,
During the early 1950's Kaess and Maurice Logan painted along the coast near Pescadero, California as Kaess taught High School in Pescadero.
A second wave of Colorist Painters began to appear in the mid 1950's reflecting the influence and including the Society of Six artists Louis Bassi Siegriest and Maurice Logan plus Erle Loran and Robert Kaess and other Berkeley School painters. Throughout the late 1950's & 60's Kaess's paintings continued to be influenced by The Society Of Six.
Especially , Louis Bassi Siegriest and Maurice Logan who were still actively painting with a colorist pallet through the 1970's
The Society of Six also influenced the early Berkeley School artists, who were creating "Colorist" paintings as early as the 1930's and through the 1970's.
One man Exhibition: Arthur Toothe Gallery, London, 1953
Selected Exhibitions: Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1951; Oakland Art Gallery annuals; Jack London Art Festival.
Source: Carlson Research Library, Carmel, CA
Post War California artist, Robert Kaess studied at the University of California under Margaret Petersen, Erle Loran, and John Haley, receiving his B.F.A. in 1948 and M.F.A. in 1950. Kaess traveled to Europe in 1952, 53 to continue his art studies and paint. Kaess had a solo exhibition at The Arthur Toothe Gallery in London in 1953.
By the early 1950's Kaess turned to abstract paintings showing the influence's of his University of California, Berkeley and European studies in 1952,
During the early 1950's Kaess and Maurice Logan painted along the coast near Pescadero, California as Kaess taught High School in Pescadero.
A second wave of Colorist Painters began to appear in the mid 1950's reflecting the influence and including the Society of Six artists Louis Bassi Siegriest and Maurice Logan plus Erle Loran and Robert Kaess and other Berkeley School painters. Throughout the late 1950's & 60's Kaess's paintings continued to be influenced by The Society Of Six.
Especially , Louis Bassi Siegriest and Maurice Logan who were still actively painting with a colorist pallet through the 1970's
The Society of Six also influenced the early Berkeley School artists, who were creating "Colorist" paintings as early as the 1930's and through the 1970's.
One man Exhibition: Arthur Toothe Gallery, London, 1953
Selected Exhibitions: Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1951; Oakland Art Gallery annuals; Jack London Art Festival.
Source: Carlson Research Library, Carmel, CA
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