American painter and printmaker. Kipniss studied at the Art Students League (1947), Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio (1948-50), and earned his BA in English literature (1952) and his MFA in painting and art history (1954) from the University of Iowa. He creates paintings, lithographs, mezzotints, and drypoints that typically depict trees seen close up or at varying distances in fields. He was elected to the National Academy of Design (1980) and to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London (1998), and has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of American Graphic Artists and The Artists Fellowship, the Speicher-Hassam Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, as well as Honorary Doctorates from Wittenberg University and Illinois College. His works are part of permanent collections in prominent institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The British Museum, London, the Albertina, Vienna, Austria, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
