Stop 4 Kirkeby's Blackboards a special significance for him. It is in these works that he is most experimental. The Blackboards are as much about erasure than about building layers.

Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture

Untitled, 1982

Fram, 1983

Stop 2 Kirkeby was inspired to paint horses by the sixteenth-century woodcuts of the German artist Hans Baldung Grien.

Untitled, 2009

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.

Regicide at Finderup barn, 1967

Inventory XX, 2002

Large Head, 1984

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.