Jack Boynton Art

Mixed Media work of a Texas national park called Big Bend. The work consists of a landscape photograph with color pencil drawing around the photograph that continues the landscape. T...

Collection of mixed media works by Jack Boynton. Each work is done using a photograph after subjects from Big Bend then the artist drew around the photo continuing the image. Each wo...

Untitled abstract serigraph silkscreen print done in reds and greens by Jack Boynton. Numbered 12/20. Circa 1980's. Dimensions without frame: H 19 in x W 19 in. Artist Biography: ...

Beautiful abstract mixed media work titled "Drawing Model Carrying Torch" by renowned Texas artist Jack Boynton. Mixed media on paper. Circa 1982. Dimensions without frame: H 8 in x ...

Petite still life watercolor painting of an apple and broccoli by renowned artist Jack Boynton done in watercolor and pencil on paper circa 1985. Dimensions without Frame: H 8 in x W...

Beautiful abstract work of a yellow ribbon coming out of a landscape shaped like the state of Texas by renowned Texas artist Jack Boynton done in mixed media on canvas on board circa...

FIRE is one of four lithographs from Boynton's suite, Elements. Other images in the suite are EARTH, AIR and WIND. This image contains eye tricks, symbols and letters throughout. James (Jack) Wesley Boynton was born on January 12, 1928 in Fort Worth, Texas. He received a BFA in (1949) and MFA in (1955) at the Texas Christian University. He began exhibiting his paintings in 1950 and moved to Houston to teach at the University of Houston in 1955. The same year, he won the Purchase Prize in the annual Texas exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and had a solo exhibition at the Fort Worth Art Museum. After teaching at UH from 1955 to 1957, Boynton taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1960 to 1962, returning to Houston after his contract was completed. In 1969, he was instrumental in creating a studio art department at the University of St. Thomas, where he served as a professor until 1985. Boynton was known professionally as James until the early 1970's when he started signing as "Jack" rather than James Boynton...

Jack Boynton large abstract painting / mixed media on paper. JB was born in Ft. Worth Tx in 1928, attended public school in Fort Worth, Dallas and Houston, graduated from Lamar Hi...

Jack Boynton Pastel on paper. titles "Back Stretch" Jack Boynton was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He earned his bachelor and master of fine arts degrees from Texas Christian University and began exhibiting his paintings in 1950. Boynton was instrumental in creating the studio arts program at the University of St. Thomas; he joined the faculty in 1969 and served as professor until 1985. He was well-respected by his colleagues, one of whom mentioned that he could look at a piece of paper and see a dozen possibilities. Selected Biographical and Career Highlights 1928 Born Fort Worth, Texas 1949 BFA, Commercial Art, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 1955 MFA, Painting, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 1955–57 Instructor, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 1960–62 Instructor, Art Institute of San Francisco, California 1967–69 Artist Fellowship, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, CA 1969–85 Professor, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas 2010 Died in Houston, Texas Selected Prizes, Awards · Texas Watercolor Society: Prize 1951,1953, 1954, 1955, 1953 Cash Prize, Cloud Strata, watercolor · Texas Fine Arts Association: Prize 1952, 1957 1952 Prize, 1957 Prize · Texas General/Annual: Purchase Prize 1953; Cash Prize 1964, 1953 Purchase Prize, Limestone Edge, oil 1964 Cash Prize, How the West was Won, oil · Houston Annual: Purchase Prize (2 works) 1955 (December) 1955 (December) Purchase Prize, Thunderstorm: 1955, oil and Purchase Prize, Red Gate, casein · D. D. Feldman: Purchase Prize 1958; First Cash Prize 1956, Prize 1959,1956 First Cash Prize, Downtown and Suburban, 1958 First Purchase Prize, 1959 Prize · Fort Worth Local: Prize 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955 1951 Prize 1952 Prize 1954 Prize 1955 Prize · Denver Art Museum: Purchase Prize 1958; Honorable Mention 1952, 1954 1952 Honorable Mention 1954 Honorable Mention 1958 Purchase Prize, Room With a View · Other Exhibitions: Purchase Prize 1957 Butler Institute of American Art; Prize 1962 San Francisco Annual, 1968 Beaumont Art Museum, Oklahoma City Art Center; Honorable Mention 1954 New Orleans Annual, 1959 Art:USA:1959 1954 Honorable Mention, New Orleans Annual 1957 3rd Purchase Prize, Sun Trap, Butler Institute of American Art 1959 Honorable Mention, Omen, Art:USA:1959 1962 1st Prize, San Francisco Annual 1968 Prize, Beaumont Art Museum 1968 Prize, Oklahoma City Art Center Selected Exhibitions · 1950 12th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1951, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1950-53 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas (prize 1951, 1952) · 1951 Texas Watercolor Society 2nd Annual Exhibition, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (prize) · 1951 13th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1951-1952, circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas · 1951-52, 1954, 1958, 1967 New Orleans Annual, Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana (honorable mention 1954) · 1951-52, 1954, 1957 Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (prize 1952, 1957) · 1952 Texas Contemporary Artists, M. Knoedler & Company, New York, New York; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) · 1952 Texas Wildcat Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California · 1952 14th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1952, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1952 Texas Watercolor Society 3rd Annual Exhibition, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1952, 1954-56, 1958, 1963 Western Annual, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado (honorable mention 1952, 1954; purchase prize 1958) · 1953 15th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1953, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (purchase prize) · 1953 Texas Watercolor Society 4th Annual Exhibition, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas, selection circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Texas A&M University, College Station; Texas A&I College, Kingsville; Centennial Museum, Corpus Christi, Texas (cash prize) · 1953, 1954, 1957, 1965 Artists West of the Mississippi, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado · 1954 Paintings and Drawings by John Biggers and James Boynton...

Significant and rare modernist figurative painting by important 20th Mid-Century Texas modernist James "Jack" Boynton (American, 1928-2010). Painted with texture via sand and vibrant orangy earthy tones, Boynton's Siamese "Cat" is a subtle and nuanced feline figurative. Titled, dated and signed on verso. Presented in rustic painted wood original frame. Condition: Very good: Repair done to missing texture and paint. Image measures: 18.50"H x 14"W. In frame measures: 25"H x 21"W x 2"D. Boynton was a key figure in the post-World War II Houston, Texas modernist arts scene. Boynton received a BFA in 1949 and MFA in 1955 at the Texas Christian University. According to a Houston Chronicle article written by Douglas Britt, Boynton garnered national attention in the 1950s and 1960s for his modernist, largely abstract paintings. He began exhibiting paintings in 1950; has been included in numerous group exhibitions, nationally and internationally, since that time at museums, galleries and universities. He was included as one of the 17 Americans who represented the USA in the Brussels World Fair in 1957/8. Is included in many group shows in many museums; Whitney, MOMA, and Guggenheim in NYC (each in several different exhibitions); Art Inst. of Chicago; San Francisco MOMA; MFA Houston, Dallas Museum of Art and many others. Boynton shared a studio with Richard Stout; both of who arrived in Houston within about eighteen months of each other, Jack Boynton coming first from Fort Worth, Still Freshly out of formal training at TCU. He brought with him the Modernist influences of the Fort Worth circle...