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Staprans' still life and landscape paintings are notable for the artist's sensitive response to light and color. A recent review of his work exhibited in Los
Angeles compared the "tasteful seriousness" of his paintings to that of
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is regarded as having played an integral part in the pro-democracy movement in Latvia during the momentous changes following the end of the
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later that year. A 60-year retrospective exhibit entitled "Full
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Staprans is also a playwright. Most of his plays are set in Latvia during the 20th century. His play
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Marburg Art Center, Marburg, Germany; Galerie
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Karlstrom, Paul J. "Control and
Sensuality: The Realist Abstraction of Raimonds Staprans" in
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64:, Staprans immigrated to the United States with his family in 1947. He studied art at the
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Staprans, Ilona; Pan, Xian-Mang; Rapp, Joseph H.; Feingold, Kenneth R. (June 1998).
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Catalogue. San Francisco, California: Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 2001.
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The Not-So-Still-Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture
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Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco; Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena;
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Landauer, Susan, William H. Gerdts, and Patricia Trenton.
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Kansas City: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000.
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