Friday, March 29, 2013

Natural History Painter Walton Ford


 








 

 




  





Walton Ford
Gleipnir, 2012
watercolor, gouache, ink, pencil on paper
69 x 120 x 1/2 inches
175.3 x 302.3 x 1.3 cm
PK 16467





Walton Ford
I don’t like to look at him, Jack, 2011
watercolor, gouache, ink, pencil on paper mounted on aluminum panel
108 x 144 x 7/8 inches
274.3 x 365.8 x 2.2 cm
PK 15822




Walton Ford
It makes me think of that awful day, 2011
watercolor, gouache, ink, pencil on paper mounted on aluminum panel
108 x 144 x 7/8 inches
274.3 x 365.8 x 2.2 cm
PK 15823




Walton Ford
Perfect in My Memory: The Man of the Woods, 2011
watercolor, gouache, pencil, and ink on paper
59 5/8 x 40 3/4 inches, 151.4 x 103.5 cm
frame 76 x 57 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches, 193 x 145.4 x 4.1 cm
PK 15180


 

Walton Ford Visitation, 2004 six color hardground and softground etching, aquatint, spit-bite aquatint, drypoint on Somerset Satin paper 44 x 30 7/8 inches 111.9 x 78.4 cm Edition of 50 PKE 7539




Walton Ford Dying Words, 2005 6 copper plates, hardground etching, aquatint, spit bite aquatint, drypoint, scraping and burnishing on white Rives paper 16 x 21 1/2 inches 40.6 x 54.6 cm Edition of 75 PKE 7926



Walton Ford Compromised, 2002 six color hardground and softground etching, aquatint, spit-bite aquatint, drypoint and roulette on somerset satin paper 44 x 30 inches (111.8 x 76.2 cm) Edition of 50 PKE 6503

Walton Ford Tale of Johnny Nutkin, 2001 six color hardground and softground etching, aquatint, spit-bite aquatint, drypoint on Somerset Satin paper 44 x 31 inches (111.8 x 78.7 cm) Edition of 50 PKE 5601

Walton Ford Benjamin's Emblem, 2000 six color hardground and softground etching, aquatint, spit-bite aquatint, drypoint on Somerset Satin paper 44 x 31 inches 111.8 x 78.7 cm Edition of 50 PKE 5237


Walton Ford Swadeshi-cide, 1998 six color hardground and softground etching, aquatint, spit-bite aquatint, drypoint and roulette on somerset satin paper 44 x 30 inches 111.8 x 76.2 cm Edition of 50 PKE 4295

 


Walton Ford La Historia Me Absolvera, 1999 six color hardground and softground etching,  aquatint, spit-bite aquatint, drypoint on Somerset Satin paper 44 x 30 inches 111.8 x 76.2 cm Edition of 50 PKE 4619




 


Walton Ford Nantes, 2009 etching, aquatint and drypoint on paper 47 3/4 x 36 7/8 inches 121.3 x 93.7 cm edition of 65 PKE 1

 

 Source: http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/artists/walton-ford/4

 

Artist

Walton Ford

Biography

(b. 1960 in Larchmont, New York. Lives and works in New York, New York)

Walton Ford’s monumental watercolors expand the visual language and narrative scope of traditional natural history painting, meditating on the often violent and bizarre moments at the intersection of human culture and the natural world.  Although human figures rarely appear in his paintings, their presence is always implied.

Ford’s work is included in a number of collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. A survey of Ford’s work was organized by the Brooklyn Museum in New York in 2006 and traveled to the San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas and the Norton Museum of Art in Florida in 2007.  Last year, Ford’s midcareer retrospective traveled from the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum Fur Gegenwart in Berlin, to the Albertina in Vienna and to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Taschen books has issued three editions of his large-format monograph, Pancha Tantra.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
2010- 2011 “Walton Ford,” LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Humlebaek, Denmark
2010 “Walton Ford: Bestiarium,” HAMBURGER BAHNHOF MUSEUM FUR GEGENWART, Berlin;
ALBERTINA, Vienna.



Walton Ford
Artist
Walton Ford is an American artist who makes paintings and prints in the style of Audubon's naturalist illustrations. Wikipedia
Born: 1960, Larchmont

 

John James Audubon
John James Audubon 1826.jpg
Audubon by John Syme, 1826
Born April 26, 1785
Les Cayes, Saint-Domingue
Died January 27, 1851 (aged 65)
Manhattan, New York
Occupation Naturalist, painter, ornithologist
Spouse(s) Lucy (Bakewell) Audubon
Signature Audubon signature.svg
John James Audubon (Jean-Jacques Audubon) (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats.

His major work, a color-plate book entitled The Birds of America (1827–1839), is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed.

Audubon identified 25 new species.

  Source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon

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