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Large 3D Cast Paper Abstract Oil Monoprint Unique Monotype Painting John Walker

1991

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John Walker British (b. 1939) Salsipuedes Forms (1991) Monoprint relief print with dry pigment, monotype Hand signed lower right Provenance: Garner Tullis Workshop A monotype is literally one of a kind; it is not a method of multiplication. The artist makes an image with a liquid medium on wood, metal or glass, and paper is laid over the moist image and bonded under pressure the paper is then removed bringing with it the transposed monotype. John Walker (born 1939) is an English painter and printmaker. He has been called "one of the standout abstract painters of the last 50 years." Walker studied in Birmingham at the Moseley School of Art, and later the Birmingham School of Art and Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Some of his early work was inspired by abstract expressionist art and post-painterly abstraction, and often combined apparently three-dimensional, sculptural shapes with "flatter" elements. These pieces are usually rendered in acrylic paint. In the early 1970s, Walker made a series of large Blackboard Pieces using chalk first exhibited at the opening of Ikon Gallery, in Birmingham Shopping Centre, Birmingham in 1972 and the Juggernaut works which also use dry pigment. From the late 1970s, his work marked allusions to earlier painters, such as Francisco Goya, Edouard Manet and Henri Matisse, either through the quoting of a pictorial motif, or the use of a particular technique. Also during this time, he began to use oil paint more in his work. His paintings of the 1970s are also notable for what has come to be termed canvas collage, the application of glued-on, separately painted patches of canvas to the main canvas. Beginning in the 1970s John Walker was one of the most influential and imitated painters working in the UK; he exhibited alongside Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, represented his country at the 1972 Venice Biennale, had extensive survey shows at both the Tate and Hayward galleries and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1985. After spending some time in Australia, Walker got a position at the Victoria College of the Arts in Melbourne. He produced the Oceania series around this time which incorporates elements of native 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 R.B. Kitaj were included in an exhibition entitled The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art From the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, at the Yale Center for British Art. His art was influenced by Boston Expressionism. Along with Aaron Fink, Gerry Bergstein, Jon Imber, Michael Mazur, Katherine Porter, Jane Smaldone, John Walker, and Philip Guston. Through Garner Tullis at Experimental Press he met Sean Scully, Friedel Dzubas, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Francis, William Wiley, and others. Select Group Exhibitions (partial list) 1965 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition. Walker Art Center, Liverpool. 1966 Recent Aspects of British Art. Australia and New Zealand (traveled). 1967 4 Artists. Betty Parsons Gallery, New York. John Walker, Michael Kidner, Bruce Tippett, Michael Tyzack 1968 European Painters Today. Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris. Traveled to The Jewish Museum NY New British Painting and Sculpture. University of California, Los Angeles. (Anthony Caro, John Hoyland etc) 1969 Theodoran Foundation Exhibition. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Paris Biennale. Paris, France 1970 British Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Peter Blake, and Richard Hamilton. Contemporary Art in Britain (organized: The British Council). The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. 1973 Toward Painting. Tate Gallery, London. Catalogue text by Terry Measham. 1975 Corcoran Biennial. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: Catalogue with text 1977 25 Years of British Painting. Royal Academy of Art, London. 1983 Acquisition Priorities: Aspects of Postwar Painting in Europe. Solomon R. Guggenheim Some Recent Acquisitions. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 27–October 11. L.A. Louver, Venice, CA: American/European: Paintings and Sculpture Part II, 1984 An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture. The Museum of Modern Art, The Critical Eye, The Yale British Art Center, Yale Center for British Art, June–July 15. 1987 Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco: Per Kirkeby, Emilio Vedova, John Walker. 1988. Nancy Graves & John Walker. Knoedler & Company, New York, June 4–19. 1990–91 Jake Berthot, Harvey Quaytman, John Walker. Nielsen Gallery, Boston, 2010. Counterpoint: The Voices of John Walker and African Art, Hamill Gallery of Tribal Art, 2011 Modern Masters: New Paintings by Sean Scully and John Walker, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Let Us Face the Future- British Art 1945-1968, Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, Select Public Collections (partial list) Auckland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Arts Council England The British Museum, London, England Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Imperial War Museum, London, England The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California MOCA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts The Museum of Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Tate Gallery, London, England Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
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