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Walton Ford

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.

Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery

Born 1960
Hometown Larchmont, NY
Lives and Works Great Barrington, MA
Education
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1982
Permanent Collection

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
New York Public Library, New York, NY

Representing Galleries

Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

SHOWS

Paul Kasmin Gallery

New York
Jan 19 2017 - Mar 04 2017

NATURALIA
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