Kirby Kendrick, Artist

As a professional artist I specialize in Impressionist, Southwestern & Contemporary art. View my blog on Artists & Art History: kirbykendrick.com/blog

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“Self-Portrait with Black Umbrella #6,” Sister Gertrude Morgan

Outsider artist Sister Gertrude Morgan was a poet, a preacher, an artist, and a singer who loved Jesus. She called Jesus her husband, her doctor, and her airplane (yes, airplane), and claimed to have met with him in visions throughout her life.

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“Evening Star No. III, 1917,” Georgia O’Keeffe

American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) not only captured the vastness of the night sky but also suggested the human instinct to try to impose order and pattern on what we see when we look at the heavens.

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“The Kiss” (1907-8), Gustav Klimt

By a fortuitous happenstance, Austrian painter, Gustav Klimt’s masterpiece, “The Kiss”, survived the German occupation of Austria during WW II. Adolph Hitler and Hermann Goring considered all modern art “degenerate” but made an exception of the iconic Klimt painting, “The Kiss”, in the Austrian National Belvedere Museum where it had been displayed since 1908.

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“Haystacks in Provence” (1888), Vincent Van Gogh

Why do we get that tingling sensation, that sudden wave of emotion, that thrill when we see the haystack paintings of Bruegel, Van Gogh and Monet?

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“View of Basel and the Rhine” (ca. 1927), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

German art changed spectacularly after 1920. No longer did artists paint the classical Greek model. The horrors of World War I, the terrible economic depression, prostitution, the chasm between the rich and the poor…all were bitterly protested in art.

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“1949-A-No. 1,” Clyfford Still

Clyfford Still is renowned for lighting the fuse for the movement of Abstract Expressionism…a movement of hugely scaled style with no recognizable subject matter.

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In 1946, African American artist Jacob Lawrence received a Guggenheim Fellowship to create "War Series," a set of paintings illustrating his experience serving in the army during World War II. What do you think of "War Series: The Letter" (1946)?

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"Scarlett" - by Kirby Kendrick Mixed media on canvas 46″ x 50″ See it on my website! https://bit.ly/3EWaYks

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“Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps” (1812), J.M.W. Turner

Light, light, light. Light in all its effervescence; light falling in scattered shining flecks, shimmering incandescent pigment. Light like it had never before been painted. J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) became the leading artist of his era.

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“Airborne” (1996), Andrew Wyeth

“I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.”

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“Little Yellow Horses” (1912), Franz Marc

“All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.”

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“The Frame” (1938), Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo is considered to be the first surrealist painter and was the first Mexican woman artist to be represented in a major European institution, The Louvre, Paris. This was the painting they acquired in 1939!

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“Composition X” (1939), Wassily Kandinsky

“The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.”

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"Come On Get Happy" - by Kirby Kendrick

Mixed media on canvas 50″ x 60″ See it on my website: https://bit.ly/3m5pcsI

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“Blue Nudes” (1952), Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse's cut-outs are works of brilliant and dimensional complexity, works that were not quite painting, not quite sculpture, and — this was the really radical part — not necessarily permanent. Matisse said this was the best work of his long career.

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“Spring in the Country” (1941), Grant Wood

“All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.”

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“Self-Portrait” (1889), Vincent Van Gogh

Myth: Vincent van Gogh was a manic, possibly slightly deranged man who just spontaneously threw paint at the canvas. Truth: He was a very experienced artist (he made 900 paintings in ten years) and doggedly honed his skills. He created very deliberate compositions.