William Thon Art

Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #18. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x...

Victorian Atlanta, by 1953, oil on canvas, 34 x 21 inches, Midtown Galleries label verso with artist’s name and title, label verso reads: “Norton Gallery of Art / Crate No. / Box _3 / No. 6 / Use Ball Point Pen”, exhibited: 15th Southeastern Exhibition, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, Norton Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, and seven other southern museums, 1953 – 1954 (see 1) American Contemporary Exhibition Opens Today, The Birmingham News, May 3, 1953; 2) Shocking, Thought Provoking Modern Paintings on Display, The State, October 4, 1953; and 3) ECK, 15th Southeastern Exhibition Is Opened At Norton Gallery, The Palm Beach Post, December 31, 1953), literature: Gruskin, Alan, The Painter and His Techniques: Wiliam Thon, The Viking Press (1964), p. 150, provenance includes Midtown Galleries, New York and the Estate of Robert Clary...

"September Woods" by Lithograph by New York Graphic Society Print Measures 25 in x 30.9 in Good condition Printed in 1979.

William Thon, 'Island Fisherman's Houses', watercolor, c. 1950. Signed, lower right; titled verso in pencil. A fine, expressionist work, with fresh colors, on cream watercolor paper;...

William Thon, 'In The Woods', watercolor, c. 1990. Signed, lower right; titled verso. A fine, painterly work, on off-white, wove watercolor paper, the ima...

Thon, William. UNTITLED. Ink on paper, not dated, but 1989. Signed in brown ink, lower right. About 9 x 12 inches, framed to 15 3/8 x 18 3/8 inches. Provenance, collection of Roz and...

William Thon, although born in New York, painted and lived most of his adult life in coastal Maine. Thon studied at the Arts Student League in New York, and exhibited in the 1930s an...

William Thon, although born in New York, painted and lived most of his adult life in coastal Maine. Thon studied at the Arts Student League in New York, and exhibited in the 1930s an...

William Thon, although born in New York, painted and lived most of his adult life in coastal Maine. Thon studied at the Arts Student League in New York, and exhibited in the 1930s an...

William Thon (1906-2000). Late Winter, 1963. Oil on masonite panel, 25 x 42 inches; 30 x 47 inches framed. Signed lower right. Gallery labels affixed en verso. Excellent condition. Biography: Addresses: Brooklyn, NY; Port Clyde, ME Profession: Painter Studied: ASL, 1924-25; Bates College (hon. D.F.A., 1957). Exhibited: Salons of Am., 1934; Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1939-53 (7 times); VMFA, 1939-46; AIC, 1940-46; WMAA, 1941-58; PAFA Ann., 1941-66; Kansas City AI, 1942-46; Albright Art Gal., 1944-46; Pepsi-Cola Exh., 1944-46; BM, 1942 (prize), 1945 (prize); NAD, 1944 (prize), 1969 (Altman Prize); SC, 1942 (prize); Philadelphia WCC, 1968 (Dawson Medal); AWCS, 1970 (Gold Medal of Honor); Midtown Gal., NYC, 1970s. Member: ANA; Salmagundi Club; Brooklyn Soc. Art; Brooklyn P&S; All. Artists Am.; NIAL; Am. Acad. Arts & Letters (fellow) Work: Swope Art Gallery; MMA; Butler Inst. Am. Art; Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst., Utica, NY; CPLH; Bloomington (IL) AA; Farnsworth Gal., Rockland, ME Comments: Positions: trustee, Am. Acad. in Rome. William Thon was an American artist noted for highly abstracted landscape paintings. He debuted as a professional artist in 1939 at the Corcoran Gallery Biennial* exhibition. He was born in New York City in 1906, and spent his childhood summers camping on Staten Island. He also developed a great love of travel, and in 1933 made an eight-month voyage to the Cocos Islands in the Pacific. He joined the Navy during World War II, and shortly after the war won the Prix de Rome*, a fellowship in Rome to the American Academy,* which he later served as trustee. Recognition for him continued with his participation in the 1942 "Artists for Victory" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art*, and in 1944, Midtown Galleries in New York held his first one-person show. This gallery then continued to be his representative throughout his career. He had subsequent solo exhibitions at Smith College Art Museum, Fort Wayne Museum and Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine. He earned an honorary Doctor of Arts from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1957, and was a member of The American Academy* and Institute of Arts and Letters, as well as the National Academy of Design*. In 1947, the year-long study at the American Academy proved highly influential on his career, especially with him beginning to paint as much with watercolor as oil. Returning to America, he submitted a watercolor into the 1949 exhibition of the National Academy of Design, and that year was voted into Academy membership. From thereon, he exhibited frequently at the Academy and won prizes including the Benjamin Altman Prize* in 1951, 1954, 1961, 1967 and 1969. In 1951, Thon received a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also taught painting at Ohio University, and painted aspects of the Apollo Space Program...

Born in New York, William Thon painted and lived most of his adult life in coastal Maine. Thon studied at the Art Students League in New York, and exhibited in the 1930s and 40s at t...

Born in New York, William Thon painted and lived most of his adult life in coastal Maine. Thon studied at the Arts Student League in New York, and exhibited in the 1930s and 40s at t...