Walton Ford

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Walton Ford (2011)

Walton Ford (* 1960 in Larchmont , NY ) is an American painter whose subjects are primarily animals .

Life and education

Ford graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence , Rhode Island , where he graduated with the BFA in 1982 . After ten years in New York City , he now lives and works (2011) in Great Barrington in Berkshire County in Massachusetts .

painting

Ford's pictures are created using the watercolor technique , supplemented by gouache , ink and pencil . Engravings from the 17th century serve as a model for his consistently large-scale works, which at first glance resemble the animal pictures by John James Audubon . On closer inspection, however, one discovers sometimes bizarre, comical, sometimes brutal details that alienate the animal from its environment, as well as numerous allusions to the history of nature exploration.

Works (selection)

  • 1997: Baba-BG , 105.1 × 74 cm
  • 1997: Chalo, Chalo, Chalo! (a Hindi expression, means something like “Let's go!”), 151.1 × 102.2 cm
  • 1998: Bula Matari (“who breaks the stones”, refers to the African nickname of the British African explorer Henry Morton Stanley ), 153.7 × 304.5 cm
  • 1998: Chingado (a Spanish vulgar expression, roughly synonymous with fuck , asshole ), 152.4 × 302.3 cm
  • 1999: Sensations of an Infant Heart , 151.1 × 102.9 cm
  • 2001: Eothen (the title refers to the book of the same name by Alexander William Kinglake , in which the latter describes a trip to the Orient), 101.6 × 152.4 cm
  • 2001: The panther eruption , 114.3 × 165.1 cm
  • 2002: Falling Bough ("Fallender Ast"), 154.3 × 303.5 cm
  • 2002: Madagascar , 304.8 × 152.4 cm
  • 2002: The Starling ("Der Starenvogel"), 153.7 × 303.5 cm
  • 2003: The Sensorium ("The Senses Perception"), 152.4 × 302.3 cm
  • 2004: Delirium , 159.1 × 109.5 cm
  • 2004: Moriré de Cara al Sol , 105.4 × 73.7 cm (“To die with your face to the sun”, meaning “not like a traitor, but as a good person”; the title refers to a poem of the same name by Cuban national hero José Martí from the book "Versos sencillos", from which the text of the famous song " Guantanamera " comes; the poem was later set to music by César Pérez Sentena )
  • 2005: Jack On His Deathbed ("Jack on his death bed"), 109.2 × 158.8 cm
  • 2005: Le Jardin ("The Garden"), 242.6 × 461.1 cm
  • 2005: Lost Trophy ("Lost Trophy"), 154.3 × 303.5 cm
  • 2006: Novaya Zemlya Still Life (" Still life in Novaya Zemlya "), 152.4 × 304.8 cm
  • 2007: A Monster From Guiny ("A Monster from Guinea "), 151.8 × 104.1 cm
  • 2007: Scipio and the Bear (" Scipio and the Bear"), 151.1 × 303.5 cm
  • 2008: Thurneysser's Demon (" Thurneysser's Demon"), 152.4 × 304.8 cm
  • 2009: An Encounter with Du Chaillu (“An Encounter with Du Chaillu ”), 242.6 × 152.4 cm
  • 2009: Borodino , 152.4 × 303.5 cm
  • 2009: Chaumière de Dolmancé (“The House of Dolmancé”; Dolmancé is the name of a homosexual in the Marquis de Sade 's “ Philosophy in the Boudoir ” ), 151.8 × 105.1 cm
  • 2009: Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London ("Royal Menagerie in the Tower of London "), 152.4 × 303.5 cm
  • 2009: The Island ("The Island"). A triptych ; first panel: 248.9 × 97.8 cm, second panel: 248.9 × 158.8 cm, third panel: 248.9 × 97.8 cm
  • 2012: Cover of the Rolling Stones album Grrr!

Solo exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra (multilingual edition: German, English, French). Taschen Verlag, Cologne, 2nd edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-8228-5237-8 .
  • Walton Ford: tigers of wrath, horses of instruction. (English; With texts by Steven Katz and Dodie Kazanjian). Abrams, New York et al. a. 2002, ISBN 0-8109-3286-5 .
  • Walton Ford, Marilyn S. Kushner, Robert Enright: Tigers of wrath: watercolors by Walton Ford , Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Ford, Walton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Larchmont , New York