Florian K. Lawton
Outgoing Fog (South Bristol, Maine)
1976

About the Item

Outgoing Fog Watercolor on paper, 1976 Signed by the artist lower left Painted in South Bristol, Maine Condition: Excellent Watercolor size: 15 x 22 7/8 inches Frame size: 20 x 30 inches (aprox.) Florian K. Lawton (1921-2011) Florian Kenneth Lawton made watercolors of regional Amish and sold them around the world. Professor Henry Adams of Case Western Reserve University wrote, "Florian Lawton had a gentle touch, and excelled in the rendering of subtle winter scenes. He also had special affinity for the Amish, whose customs appealed to his sense of enduring values, and his drawings and watercolors of Amish subjects are remarkable not only in visual terms but for their value as a cultural and historical record." Lawton was raised in Garfield Heights by a family without artists but showed early interest. He graduated from Garfield Heights High School, the Huntington Polytechnic Institute and what later became the Cleveland Institute of Art. During World War II, he made topographical maps in the Pacific for the Army Air Corps. He also decorated airplanes and tanks with pictures of scantily clad women. After the war he lived in Pepper Pike, Shaker Heights, Moreland Hills and Aurora. He made friends with Amish people in Geauga County, Holmes County and Pennsylvania. Some who shunned photographs let him depict them, and a few studied drawing with him. Lawton found many other subjects, from Cleveland streets to a quail hunt. His works belong to the White House, Fortune 500 companies, museums and more around the world. He also illustrated many local calendars and holiday cards, once depicting his bearded son, Kenneth, as Jesus. Lawton was listed in the Whos Who in American Art. He was a featured artist with Mill Pond Press, and a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Midwest Watercolor Society and Whiskey Painters of America, and the Akron Society of Artists. His awards numbered over 60, and he had an equal number of one man shows nationally. Public Collections · American Ship Building, NYC · American Society of Metals, Burton, OH · Banc Ohio, Columbus, OH · Cole-National, Cleveland, OH · Day-Glo Corporation, OH · Eaton Corporation, NY · General Electric, Cincinnati, OH · Kaiser-Permanente · King Kahlid, Saudi Arabia · TRW, Cleveland, OH · Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH · BP Oil Foundation, Cleveland, OH Selected Exhibitions · American Watercolor Society, NYC · Butler Institute of American Art, National Annual · Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show · Chautauqua Annuals, Chautauqua NY · Adirondack National Exhibitions of Watercolors, NY · Audubon Artists Juried Annual Exhibition, NYC · Rocky Mountain Aquarelle Show, Golden CO

Creator:

Florian K. Lawton (1921 - 2011)

Creation Year:

1976

Dimensions:

Height: 15 in (38.1 cm)Width: 22.875 in (58.11 cm)

Medium:

Watercolor

Movement & Style:

Realist

Period:

1970-1979