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John Knudson was one of the original art professors when William Rainey Harper College opened in the fall of 1967. He was instrumental in fighting for hiring artists who were most qualified as opposed to the hiring of friends. This served Harper College in attracting students who were already attending 4-year colleges but wanted to study with the Harper College faculty and transfer their credit back into their original program. It also set up the school to be capable of serving students with the changes that come with time.

John Knudson was a painter and printmaker deeply responding to the changing world around him with original themes such as cityscapes, street signs, trains, light posts, auctions, Persian rugs, politicians, and all the places he traveled. Everything he saw, no matter how significant or insignificant, could be turned into a work of art.

In 1985 he had a large one-person exhibition at the University of Minnesota’s Katherine Nash Gallery of all abstract work. He eliminated the representational forms of the past but spent time on expanding the abstract patterns that made up these forms. Afterwards he returned to representation with new vigor based on this experience.

In 1994, John Knudson had a one-person exhibition at the Beauxmage Fine arts in St. Paul Minnesota. He also had 2 one-person exhibitions at the Grand Hand Gallery, St Paul Minnesota in 1998 and 1999.