Stop 3 From the late 1960s through the 1970s Kirkeby produced pictures on serially arranged square Masonite panels. Repeating motifs such as cabins, caves, and Mayan ruins transform natural associations into more real or historical landscape paintings.

Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture

Regicide at Finderup barn, 1967

Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture is the most comprehensive survey in the United States to date of works by Scandinavia’s most highly acclaimed living artist, Per Kirkeby (Danish, b. 1938). Equally trained as a geologist and an artist, Kirkeby is a painter of eminent sensuality, creating richly layered canvases filled with prodigious detail and animated by an unequaled material quality of color. He is not only a leading painter, sculptor, and printmaker, but also a prolific writer, poet, and filmmaker.

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Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture