John Walker (painter)

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John Walker (born 1939) is a British painter and graphicist. He has been called "one of the most prominent abstract painters of the last 50 years."

Walker studied at Birmingham at the Moseley School of Art, and then the Birmingham School of Art and the Acadà © me de la Grande ChaumiÃÆ'¨re in Paris. Some of his earlier works were inspired by abstract expressionism and post-painter abstraction, and often combined apparently three-dimensional shapes with "flat" elements. These pieces are usually given in acrylic paint.

In the early 1970s Walker made a large series of Chalkboard using chalk which was first exhibited at the opening of Ikon Gallery, at Birmingham's Birmingham, Birmingham in 1972 and the Juggernaut's also use dry pigment. From the late 1970s, his work marked an allusion to previous painters, such as Francisco Goya, ÃÆ' â € ° Douard Manet and Henri Matisse, either through pictorial motifs, or the use of certain techniques. Also during this time, he began to use more oil paint in his work. His paintings of the 1970s are also famous for the so-called collage canvas - a fixed application, canvas patches painted separately onto the main canvas (see external links below for examples and drawings).

After spending some time in Australia, Walker got a position at Victoria College of the Arts in Melbourne. He produced the Oceania series around this time that incorporated elements of original Oceanic art.

Walker is currently the head of the graduate painting program at Boston University.

Walker won the 1976 John Moores Painting Prize and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1985.

In September 2010, Walker and five other British artists including Howard Hodgkin, John Hoyland, Ian Stephenson, Patrick Caulfield and RB Kitaj were included in an exhibition entitled Independent Eyes: Contemporary English Art From Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie Collection, > at the Yale English Art Center.

Walker has 2008 Landscape Paintings on display at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. in the Modern Section. He also has works in the following public collections: Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia; Institute of Art Chicago, Illinois; Arts Council, England; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, England; British Museum, London, England; City Art Gallery, Leeds Museum and Gallery, England; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Museum Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Imperial War Museum, London, England; Museum of Modern Irish Art, Dublin; Iziko Museum in Cape Town, South Africa; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Fred Jones Art Museum, Jr., University of Oklahoma, Norman; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, England; MIT-List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany; Neuhaus Museum - Sammlung Liaunig, Austria; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn College Library, New York, National Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Gallery of Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Southampton City Art Gallery, England; Gallery Tate, London, England; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Virginia Fine Arts Museum, Richmond; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

In 2010, Walker held a solo exhibition at Tsinghua University in Beijing, pictures can be viewed at: http://art.china.cn/zixun/2010-03/08/content_3407730.htm

Video John Walker (painter)

See also

• Boston Expressionism

Maps John Walker (painter)

References

External links

• John Walker at Kenneth Tyler Collection Australia's National Gallery
• John Walker Untitled , (1976) (acrylic, lime, and canvas collage on canvas, 120 x 96 inches; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC)
• Exhibition at Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney Australia (2012)
• Jennifer Samet (May 18, 2013). "Beer with a Painter: John Walker".

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