Robert Kushner Robert Kushner, who emerged in the early 1970s as a performance artist, is well known for his richly textured and opulent paintings of flowers, which have been his main concentration since the late 1980s. The artist says, Gold leaf made its way into my paintings, and my subject matter began to shift from figures to flowers and plant forms...Japanese influences slumbered and meshed with other sources for a few years. However, as a counterbalance, Matisse, Bonnard, Klimpt, O'Keefe and Demuth remained (and still remain) important sources for me. Kushner has exhibited extensively, and his work can be found in the collections of many prestigious institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Tate Gallery in London and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Note: Click on any work of art to view a larger image
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Paintings
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Blue Nile Pink Lotus 2008
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf, Copper Leaf on Canvas
72 x 36 inches |
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Morning Glories 2007 Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf on Canvas
48 x 30 inches |
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Celestial Blue I 2007
Acrylic, Oil, Gold Leaf on Canvas
48 x 30 inches
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Morning Glories II 2007
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf on Canvas
36 x 72 inches
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Celestial Blue II 2007Acrylic, Oil, Silver Leaf on Canvas
48 x 30 inches
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Nine Red Tulips 2009
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf on Canvas
36 x 72 inches |
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Chrysanthemum V 2008
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf, Copper Leaf on Canvas
36 x 72 inches
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Orange Dahlia 2000
Oil, Acrylic, Gold, Bronze, Palladium Leaf, Glitter on Panel
36 x 36 inches
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Eight Pink Tulips 2006
Oil, Acrylic, Gold & Silver Leaf, Mica on Canvas
36 x 72 inches
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Sunflower Bouquet II 1998
Oil, Acrylic, Metal Leaf on Panel
24 x 36 inches |
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Lotus I 2007
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf, Copper Leaf on Canvas
48 x 30 inches |
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White Cyclamen I 1999
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf on Panel
36 x 36 inches |
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Works on Paper
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White Camellia I 2009
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf, Metalic Pigment on Paper
14 x 14 inches
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White Camellia VI 2009
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf, Metalic Pigment on Paper
14 x 14 inches |
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White Camellia II 2009
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf, Metalic Pigment on Paper
14 x 14 inches |
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White Camellia VII 2009
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf, Metalic Pigment on Paper
14 x 14 inches |
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White Camellia III 2009
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf, Metalic Pigment on Paper
14 x 14 inches
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White Camellia VIII 2009
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf, Metalic Pigment on Paper
14 x 14 inches |
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White Camellia IV 2009
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf, Metalic Pigment on Paper
14 x 14 inches |
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White Camellia IX 2009
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf, Metalic Pigment on Paper
14 x 14 inches |
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White Camellia V 2009
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf, Metalic Pigment on Paper
14 x 14 inches |
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White Camellia X 2009
Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf, Metalic Pigment on Paper
14 x 14 inches |
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