Robert Natkin Born in Chicago, 1930 Robert Natkin is renowned as a Color Abstractionists of American Modernism. He was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1948 to 1952. In the early 1950s he was deeply affected by Willem de Kooning's work. Natkin is noted as one of the premier abstract painters in America today. He is credited for having taken on and evolved color mastery process from the "soak-stain" Post-Painterly Abstractionists. He invented a wide range of original techniques involving sponging, staining, stenciling and soaking to achieve signature painterly effects. He was influenced by Post-Impressionist, Cubist and Abstract Expressionist painters. Natkin's art is now in the permanent collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim (New York), the Whitney, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Robert Natkin is renowned as a Color Abstractionists of American Modernism.

La Parete Gallery – Fine Art Gallery - Toronto - Canada La Parete Gallery is recognized for its selection of Fine Art: Canadian Art - Native Art - Inuit Art - First Nations Art - International Art

Artists:  Antonio, Ann Beam, Carl Beam, Molly Lamb Bobak, David Bolduc, Miller Brittain, Christopher Broadhurst, Frank Leonard Brooks, Israel Broytman, A.J. Casson, Antonio Cardarelli, J. Cardinal-Schubert, Jack Chambers, Konrad Cramer, Eegyvudluk, Dorothy Francis, Pal Fried, Joachim Gauthier, Richard Gorman, Giovanni Guarlotti Tom Hodgson, Gershon Iskowitz, Lee L'Clerc, Maud Lewis, Kenneth Lochhead, René Marcil, Norval Morrisseau, Robert Natkin, Louis de Niverville, Anna Noéh, William Ogilvie, Frère Jérôme Paradis, William Ronald, Rolph Scarlett, Gerald Scott, P.C. Sheppard, Roland Strasser, Harold Town