Rocky Landscape USA

Last name : Moses-Kahnert
First Name : Veda
Date of birth: Kingston Jamaica 1924 - Suresnes France 2017
Material : Oil
Support : Canvas
Dimensions of the work : 75.5 cm x 102 cm
Frame size : 78 cm x 104 cm
Subject : Rocky Landscape USA
Observations : Exhibited at the Milestone Gallery in Washington in 1982. Signed with the monogram at the bottom left VMK 82
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born, raised and educated in Kingston, Jamaica, Dr. Veda Moses-Kahnert moved to England to study at Manchester University. She then came to America to study social psychology at Hunter College in New York. She returned to Europe to complete her doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, doing research with a group of delinquent girls at the Salpêtrière psychiatric hospital in Paris. A member of various art organizations, she has worked with psychotics at the Marcel Rivière Institute near Paris using art as a therapeutic approach and as a research tool regarding the psychodynamics of art therapy.
Dr. Moses-Kahnert has lived in France.
The long list of countries visited by Mrs. Veda Moses Kahnert that inspired her work;
Jamaica, United States, Mexico, Greece, Ireland, Alaska, Canada, Majorca, Egypt, Norway, Australia, ....
Self-taught painter of expressionist influence, the oldest work listed is from 1958 and for the most recent 2008; the set has for subject landscapes and seasides.

"Veda Moses Kahnert is marked by her native Jamaica and seeks, wherever she goes, a trembling soul and at the same time a certain gravity.
Indeed, her evocations of sites such as "Delphi in Greece" for example, are heart-to-heart with the natural element in its grandeur and aridity..."
Source: from the modern illustrated review of arts and life - 1975.

Exhibitions
Mona Lisa Gallery
Gallery Marcel Bernheim March - April 1980
The French Assembly for the cultural and artistic exchanges with Europe 1980 and 1990
Mileston Gallery Washington 1982
Les surindépendants April - May 1983
Makart Gallerie Washington October - November 1984
Notre Dame Gallery Paris April 1986
Fédération Internationale Commerce Industrie Economie diploma silver palette 1986 and gold palette 1988
La Galerie de Deauville July - August 1990
Salon des indépendants 1993
The French Assembly for cultural and artistic exchanges with Europe 1980 and 1990.
Salon of the great price of distinctions 1995.
Winter exhibition,
Incomplete list.

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