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Born 1960 Larchmont, New York. Known for: Large scale animal paintings and illustrations.
Creating work that resembles John James Audubon's classic images of wildlife and birds, Walton Ford subverts them to narrative painting whereby he comments on contemporary society such as its... Read full biography
Creating work that resembles John James Audubon's classic images of wildlife and birds, Walton Ford subverts them to narrative painting whereby he comments on contemporary society such as its desecration of nature. He showed early art talent as a child who was raised in Croton in the suburbs of New... Read full biography
Creating work that resembles John James Audubon's classic images of wildlife and birds, Walton Ford subverts them to narrative painting whereby he comments on contemporary society such as its desecration of nature. He showed early art talent as a child who was raised in Croton in the suburbs of New York City. His father was an art director for Time-Life. As a teenager, Ford determined to be a herpetologist, and even, with his indulgent mother's knowledge, kept a five-foot black pilot snake in... Read full biography
Creating work that resembles John James Audubon's classic images of wildlife and birds, Walton Ford subverts them to narrative painting whereby he comments on contemporary society such as its desecration of nature. He showed early art talent as a child who was raised in Croton in the suburbs of New York City. His father was an art director for Time-Life. As a teenager, Ford determined to be a herpetologist, and even, with his indulgent mother's knowledge, kept a five-foot black pilot snake in his closet, feeding it rats. A major inspiration for his depiction of animals came from his grade-school reading of Audubon's Birds of America and from his realization that he could draw almost as well as Audubon. However, he developed a disgust for... Read full biography
Creating work that resembles John James Audubon's classic images of wildlife and birds, Walton Ford subverts them to narrative painting whereby he comments on contemporary society such as its desecration of nature. He showed early art talent as a child who was raised in Croton in the suburbs of New York City. His father was an art director for Time-Life. As a teenager, Ford determined to be a herpetologist, and even, with his indulgent mother's knowledge, kept a five-foot black pilot snake in his closet, feeding it rats. A major inspiration for his depiction of animals came from his grade-school reading of Audubon's Birds of America and from his realization that he could draw almost as well as Audubon. However, he developed a disgust for Audubon when he learned that Audubon killed his subject matter. In the late 1970s, Ford studied film mak... Read full biography
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Keywords (12)
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Hudson River Valley, New York
Art School
- •Rhode Island School of Design, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Bird Specialty