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J. James Akston
Modernist Impasto Painting Mountain with Ocean Landscape J. James Akston

1979

$600
£451.49
€521.95
CA$847.22
A$918.63
CHF 487.51
MX$11,314.12
NOK 6,042.34
SEK 5,702.58
DKK 3,895.99

About the Item

J. James Akston Mountain Landscape by ocean Acrylic on Board Frame: 11.5 x 16. Image: 5 X 9.5 Joseph James Akston was a Polish American sculptor, painter, known for surrealist abstract painting and Aubusson (for Les Ateliers Pinton Frères, tapisserie, Aubusson) tapestry artist. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1898 he died in Palm Beach Florida in 1983. During the 1960s and '70s the entrepreneur-artist James Joseph Akston adopted a unique Surreal Expressionist style in order to present his private primordial universe and lampoon its denizens, a ribald cast of animal creatures with human foibles. A successful industrialist, he began his career with General Motors foreign operations and then started his own business. Intermittently he studied painting, first with Jerry Farnsworth in North Truro (Mass.) and then with Jose Clemente Orozco in Mexico. In the early 1960s Akston became publisher-editor of a group of art publications which included The Magazine Arts. Initially an abstract expressionist, Akston had one-man exhibitions at the New York Convention Center and the Corcoran Museum in Washington. Since 2015 the record price for this artist at auction is $12,575 USD for Spheres Aux Triangles Aubusson Tapestry, sold at Bonhams New York in 2019. He was a Graduate of Georgetown University. He sat on the board of the Norton Museum. Exhibitions 1976 Hokin Gallery 1966 Gallery 63 NYC 1960 Gallery 63 Rome , Italy Select Public Collections National Museum, Wshington DC Boca Museum of Art Whitney Museum of Art, NYC Museum of Modern Art, NYC Museum of African Art Washington DC (Now part of Smithsonian Museum) Bibliography: 1962 Art Voices Magazine: Editor and Chief Beginning of the Beginning by J JAMES AKSTON First Book of Pop Art Akston: 25 Creative Years by Gordon Brown Voyage to the Black Hole by Gordon Brown Art Digest Newsletter, 1960s
  • Creator:
    J. James Akston (1898 - 1983)
  • Creation Year:
    1979
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11.5 in (29.21 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    good. wear to frame, refer to images.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38214495492

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