Edward Knippers (b. 1946) is an American painter and printmaker living in Arlington, VA. His work has been included in over 150 exhibitions, half of which have been one-man shows and invitationals. These include exhibitions at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Cheekwood, a botanical garden and art museum in Nashville, TN. His work has also been exhibited at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, NC. Knippers' art is included in numerous public and private collections including the Billy Graham Museum, Wheaton, IL; the University of Oklahoma Museum, Norman, OK; the Vatican Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Rome; and the Grunwald Print Collection at the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA . Violent Grace, A Retrospective, a monograph on his paintings has been published by Fresco Fine Art Books, Albuquerque, NM. www.edwardknippers.com