Warren Kimble Prints Primitive Folk Art

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Kimble is celebrated for his art works of extremely stylized animals as well as rural Vermont views applying antique architectural wood as his canvas. His topics and casual style arouse the flavor of the placid Vermont country side. His singular palette, distinguishing eye for detail, as well as the old fashioned look blended with the texture of the wood produce a aesthetic, lasting works which has appealed a broad following of collectors both across the country and internationally. His style is Americana folk art, primitive and appealing.

 

Popular folk artist Warren Kimble went to Syracuse University and earned a degree in Fine Art. He has experienced vocations in the advertisement industry as well as an instructor. Kimble acquired an interest in folk art, architecture, as well as Early American furniture when employed as a professor with Castleton State College of Vermont. Kimble applies acrylics upon antique architectural boards, his works have been distributed by Wild Apple from 1991. His art is shaped by American primitive works and frequently portray stylized animals or landscapes of his familiar home in Vermont. Kimble's art is collected nationwide as well as internationally and he is renowned as America's best recognized living folk artist.

 

As America's best known living folk artist, Warren Kimble draws off over forty years of experience as a fine artist, instructor, collector, crafter and antiques trader to produce a informal although sophisticated style of popular American Folk Art.

Kimble has been esteemed with a leading museum retrospective with the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. Named Warren Kimble's America, the exhibition includes the finest of his folk art prints which includes his now classic barns, US flags, farming landscapes, and wonderfully capricious animals. Kimble's art was displayed in museum's Round Barn, a loved theme of the painter.

Warren Kimble's art had a unique, inviting style which has captured the attention of many collectors, both serious and casual, and his art can be seen in homes across the United States. He is a forerunner in the popular prim decorative movement.

 

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