Karl Knaths (American, 1891-1971) , "Spirits of the Hondo", oil on paper laid on board, signed lower left, inscribed with artist and title and artist biography en verso, 22 in. x 27 in., framed. Note: Karl Knaths, recognized as a painter with a unique and individual interpretation of Cubism, was born in Wisconsin in 1891. In 1912, Knaths enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. As a guard at the Chicago presentation of the Armory Show in 1913, he was first exposed to modernism and began to incorporate aspects of the progressive artists, particularly that of Cézanne, into his work. After a brief stay in New York in 1919, he became a lifelong resident of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he exhibited landscapes and still life paintings regularly with the Provincetown Art Association. Also influenced by the works and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, Knaths became interested in music and believed that there were correspondences between musical intervals and spatial proportions, a theory that suited his cubist pictorial structure. In the work offered here, Knaths' use of color, line and geometric shapes create a visual cacophony which perfectly represents this distinctive American artist.