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James F. Walker (October 8, 1913 – February 5, 1994) was an award-winning graphic artist, twice named to the 100 Best New Talent List by ''Art in America''. Walker was particularly noted for his mixed media surrealist images, which he called "magic realism."〔 Walker was also an influential teacher.〔Schmitt, Anne (February 9, 1994). ''Daily Herald''. p. 9.〕 His work has been exhibited in America, as well as in Germany and in France.〔 ==Biography== Walker was born in Kirksville, Missouri, to James Franklin Walker Sr. and Mable Azalea Hunt. Walker's father was a landscape artist and an early influence,〔 and his brother is also an artist. Walker's passion for art evolved over his lifetime into a career as artist and teacher.〔 He studied at the University of Iowa in Iowa City receiving a BFA. He then moved to New York City where he studied at the American Artists School and at the studio of Nahum Tschacbasov.〔 His work was influenced by Tschacbasov's surrealist images. Walker joined the army in 1941, serving in the Aleutian Islands until 1945. During the war, he married Leona Buchanan. They had one child, Joy Walker Hall.〔 After World War II, he returned to the University of Iowa for an MA in art history and an MFA in studio printmaking.〔 At that time, he studied under Mauricio Lasansky, considered "one of the fathers of twentieth-century American printmaking."〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa )〕 Lasansky had brought his printmaking skills and techniques from Stanley William Hayter's New York Atelier 17 to the University of Iowa School of Art and History (1945–1986). "If there is such a thing as a printmaking capital of the U.S., it could well be the Department of Graphic Arts at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City." After an interval teaching art in Kansas, Walker took a teaching position at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1954–1959).〔 While at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ''Art in America'' twice named him to the 100 Best New Talent List, 1956 and 1959.〔〔 Many years later, Santa Fe artist Lorraine Dickinson remembered her time in Walker's drawing and collage classes at the School of the Art Institute. Her work was "all in the representational mode," she said. "I didn't get into abstract until I studied with James F. Walker in Chicago. He was determined that we were all going to stop painting traditionally. It was like pulling teeth but I finally got it. A few times I tried to revert back to representational, but I get so bored with it." In 1960, Walker accepted a teaching position at Arlington High School and later at Elk Grove High School, both in Northwest Suburban High School District 214.〔〔 When interviewed by the Arlington High School newspaper, ''The Cardinal'', Walker explained his philosophy of education: "The art department isn't run especially for the talented student, but rather to enrich the cultural background for all students."〔''The Cardinal''. October 21, 1960〕 He retired from teaching in 1975〔 and moved with his family to Gravette, Arkansas, where he continued to work as an artist until his death in 1994.〔 Richard Calisch, division head of English and Fine Arts at Elk Grove High School said, "() was that special combination who had his own career and was also a fine teacher. The kids loved him."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James F. Walker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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