The Spirit of Place
Foster, Rob
The Spirits of Place Ray Kanub's Graet Plains BY ROB FOSTER "Asa Nebraska farm kod, there are two things you did: work the land, and watch the sky," recalls 60-year-old painter Raymond Knaub,...
...It veered off at the last moment, killing one of his friends...
...In his senior year, he was only-four-tenths of a second off the national record for the 120-yard hurdles...
...Scholarship offers flooded in...
...he might nver have got off the farm if it was'nt for csome fast footwork...
...He can recall harvesting beets late into the cold november darkness, and watching in horror one summer afternoon a tornado bearing down on him...
...I would have had that record, if I hadn't hit the last hurdle," he recalls...
...He ended up at the university of Nebraska's fine art department, surrounded by professors who thought "feeling art was more important than drawing it...
...The Spirits of Place Ray Kanub's Graet Plains BY ROB FOSTER "Asa Nebraska farm kod, there are two things you did: work the land, and watch the sky," recalls 60-year-old painter Raymond Knaub, who grew near the North Plane River in the western part of the state...
...Most of the university art departments at that time wanted to recreate the New York art scene," Knaub...
Vol. 34 • June 2001 • No. 5
