William Leroy Knudson 1929 -

"The Storm"
(Heritage of the Navajo Series)
Oil on board, 24 x 36
1973, Williams, Arizona
$3,000

After graduating the Minneapolis Art Museum School, Robert Leroy Knudson moved to Arizona. He became an artist of Western scenes and native Americans. His specialty was the ancient culture of the Hopi and the Navajo. He was featured in the November 1987 issue of "Southwest Art" magazine. After a career in advertising art, he became an arti instructor for the Kachina School of Art in Phoenix. His works hang in the San Diego Museum of Art, the Museum of Northern Arizona and the William Penn Memorial Museum.

"What I try to get in my paintings is the quality of light. Light defines drama and contrast. To me it parallels life, highlights many thoughts about principles of change, survival, eternality. Light sets the mood, the dynamic to any moment on the ladnscape and suggests a grand theme"...Artist Statement, courtesy Sue Willoughby from "Custom Showcase", 1989.

Source: AskArt: Submitted by a researcher for The Ashworth Collection of Western and Native American Art-Arkansas. Source: Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art," Peggy and Harold Samuels, "Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West."