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John Ingvard Kjargaard (1902-1992)
signed and dated 'KJARGAARD '79' (lower right)
acrylic and paper collage on canvas
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
Painted in 1979.
Footnotes
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Private collection, Oʻahu, acquired from the above.
John Kjargaard arrived in Hawaiʻi in 1937 to work as an etcher for the Paradise of the Pacific magazine, already with art school bona fides from the Cooper Union in New York City, the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and the University of California, Berkeley. However, Kjargaard credited a summer course taken under the Bauhaus artist Josef Albers at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa in 1954 as having the greatest influence on his work. 1
The Danish-born Kjargaard studied under the German-born Albers in a basic design course. 2 Kjargaard recalled that Albers 'demanded that the exercises be done with the utmost care. Among many other things, he taught the equal importance of positive and negative space and the interaction of colors, which to me, is all-important.' 3
Kjargaard found that collage-based media offered him the greatest opportunity to explore interactions of colors, which he did for nearly four decades. In the present work, Kjargaard explores the push-pull of opaque and translucent color planes through layered acrylic paint and colored tissue.
1 F. Haar and P. Neogy, Artists of Hawaii: Nineteen Painters and Sculptors, Volume I, The State Foundation on Culture & The Arts and the University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1974, pp. 83, 85.
2 Twenty-eight Annual Summer Session, Honolulu and Hilo, June 23 to August 3, 1954 [course catalog], University of Hawaiʻi, Volume XXXIII, No. 2, March 1954, pp. 4, 13.
3 Haar and Neogy, p. 85.




















