Marley Kaul Paintings

Marley Kaul may be one of the most devoted master painters you have not yet heard of. Or he may be an artist and a teacher-philosopher you have admired and learned from during his long life as a painter. This book serves as his final exhibition. A dazzling celebration of color and artistic expression, the retrospective presents more than 300 images of paintings created from 1961, before Kaul became an art professor, to 2021, the year he died. Kaul's body of work includes paintings rendered in acrylic, casein, oil, gouache, watercolor, and egg tempera, done on canvas, paper, and wood panels. His wife, art curator and weaver Sandra Staehle Kaul; son Stephen Kaul; and daughter, Allison Kaul DeLeone, organized this collection of artworks and writings.

The book introduces Marley Kaul by sketching his biography and his painting process. Artist Lou Ferreri offers his view of Kaul's process, observed in the days when they shared a studio at the University of Oregon. From there, the book unfoldes chronologically--from mid-20th century to early 21st century--with each chapter showing paintings from particular periods. Throughout the arc of his artistic life, Kaul wrote about his paintings and his craft. Each chapter includes a number of those insights, instructions, and musings.

Marley Kaul, Paintings is a synthesis of all that he accomplished as an artist.