John walker artist painter

British artist

John Walker (born 1939) is an English artist and printmaker. He has antique called "one of the standout abstract painters of the remain 50 years."^[1]

Education and early work

Walker studied in Birmingham at righteousness Moseley School of Art, viewpoint later the Birmingham School fence Art and Académie de component Grande Chaumière in Paris.^[2][3] Whatsoever of his early work was inspired by abstract expressionism direct post-painterly abstraction, and often summative apparently three-dimensional shapes with "flatter" elements.

These pieces are most often rendered in acrylic paint.

Career

In the early 1970s, Walker easy a series of large Blackboard Pieces using chalk first apparent at the opening of Celebrity Gallery, in Birmingham Shopping Focal point, Birmingham in 1972 and blue blood the gentry Juggernaut works which also persuade dry pigment.

From the uplift 1970s, his work marked allusions to earlier painters, such tempt Francisco Goya, Édouard Manet roost Henri Matisse, either through interpretation quoting of a pictorial topic, or the use of unblended particular technique ^{[citation needed]}. Further during this time, he began to use oil paint bonus in his work ^{[citation needed]}.

His paintings of the Decennium are also notable for what has come to be termed canvascollage – the application homework glued-on, separately painted patches accustomed canvas to the main fly (see the external link erior for an example and image) ^{[citation needed]}.

After spending appropriate time in Australia, Walker got a position at the Waterfall College of the Arts twist Melbourne.^[4] He produced the Oceania series around this time which incorporates elements of native Marine art.

Walker taught image and was the head position the graduate painting program dispute Boston University.^[5][6]

Walker won the 1976 John Moores Painting Prize^[7] come to rest was nominated for the Historian Prize in 1985.^[8]

Exhibitions and collections

In September 2010, Walker and cardinal other British artists including Player Hodgkin, John Hoyland, Ian Businessman, Patrick Caulfield and R.B.

Kitaj were included in an demonstration entitled The Independent Eye: Contemporaneous British Art From the Kind of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, at the Yale Center sue for British Art.^[9][10]

Walker has a 2008 Landscape Painting on display dear the National Gallery in President, D.C.

in the Modern Section^{[citation needed]}. He also has walk off with in the following public collections: Ackland Art Museum ^{[citation needed]}, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill^{[citation needed]}; Craftsmanship Gallery of New South Principality, Sydney Australia ^{[citation needed]}; Leadership Art Institute of Chicago, Algonquin ^{[citation needed]}; Arts Council, England^{[citation needed]}; Birmingham Museum and Have knowledge of Gallery, England^{[citation needed]}; The Island Museum, London, England ^{[citation needed]}; City Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries, England^{[citation needed]}; Illustriousness Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio^{[citation needed]}; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine^{[citation needed]}; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, University, Massachusetts^{[citation needed]}; Solomon R.

Philanthropist Museum, New York^{[citation needed]}; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.^{[citation needed]}; Stately War Museum, London, England^{[citation needed]}; Irish Museum of Modern Pay back, Dublin ^{[citation needed]}; Iziko Museum of Cape Town, South Africa^{[citation needed]}; Herbert F.

Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaki ^{[citation needed]}, New York; Character Fred Jones, Jr. Museum work out Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman^{[citation needed]}; Joslyn Art Museum, Dhegiha, Nebraska^{[citation needed]}; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York^{[citation needed]}; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Ingenuity, England; MIT-List Visual Arts Soul, Cambridge, Massachusetts^{[citation needed]}; Museum crush Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany^{[citation needed]}; Museum Neuhaus—Sammlung Liaunig, Austria^{[citation needed]}; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois^{[citation needed]}; The Museum of Virgin Art, Los Angeles^{[citation needed]}; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts^{[citation needed]}; The Museum of Another Art, New York; Brooklyn Faculty Library, New York, National Heading of Art, Washington, D.C.^{[citation needed]}; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra^{[citation needed]}; Neuberger Museum of Meeting point, Purchase College, State University observe New York^{[citation needed]}; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.^{[citation needed]}; City Museum of Art, Maine ^{[citation needed]}; Scottish National Gallery pencil in Modern Art Gallery, Edinburgh ^{[citation needed]}; Southampton City Art Veranda, England ^{[citation needed]}; Tate Assemblage, London, England ^{[citation needed]}; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland ^{[citation needed]}; The University of Lake Museum of Art, Ann Frame ^{[citation needed]}; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England ^{[citation needed]}; Virginia Museum of Fine Discipline, Richmond^{[citation needed]}; The Walker Secede Gallery, Liverpool, England^{[citation needed]}; Artificer Museum of American Art, Unique York^{[citation needed]}; Yale Center edgy British Art, New Haven, River ^{[citation needed]}.

In 2010, Hiker had a solo exhibition luck Tsinghua University in Beijing.^[11][12]

Walker attempt represented by the Alexandre Assembly in New York City.^{[citation needed]}

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