As the architect who designed Ventana in the 1970s, Kipp Stewart has had a long association with Ventana and Big Sur.  His paintings now grace the walls at the Ventana Inn, Restaurant, and Gallery.  Truly an artist, his creative work has taken many forms.

Born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, he was raised and educated in California.  Kipp studied drawing, color and design, architecture and engineering at the Chouinard Institute in Los Angeles.  Later, he taught color and design at Chouinard and at Jepson Art Institute for three years.

He worked in the early Charles Eames office on photo exhibits, toys and graphics, and since the early fifties he has had design offices in California, Italy, and Bermuda.     

Kipp’s furniture designs have been manufactured and marketed throughout the world and are in use in residences, major corporations, hotels, the United Nations, and the White House.  Teak and metal design collections created for Summit Furniture and Bradford Stewart & Company have been presented national and international awards.

Widely exhibited in museums and galleries, his acrylic paintings and watercolors are in private collections throughout the United States, and many have been reproduced as prints.  Big Sur Observed and Monterey-The First Buildings are two books illustrated by Kipp’s drawings and watercolors.

              The Gallery at Ventana is pleased to present the work of Kipp Stewart