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Walton Ford (born 1960 in Larchmont, New York) is an American artist who makes paintings and prints in the style of Audubon's naturalist illustrations. Each of his paintings is a meticulous study in flora and fauna, while being filled with symbols, clues and jokes referencing a multitude of texts from colonial literature and folktales to travel guides. Ford's paintings are complex narratives that critique the history of colonialism, industrialism, politics, natural science, and humanity's effect on the environment. His prints are meticulous and fastidious in execution. ''Dying Words'' from 2005 is a combination color etching, aquatint and drypoint on paper in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. In this print, the extinct Carolina parakeet replaces people in Benjamin West's famous painting, ''The Death of General Wolfe''. Ford left the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island in 1982 with a BFA degree. Walton Ford is the recipient of several national awards and honors including a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and is one of the artists profiled on the PBS series ''Art:21''. He had his first major one-man show at the Brooklyn Museum in 2006 and is currently represented by the Paul Kasmin Gallery in Manhattan. In 2010, the retrospective "Walton Ford: Bestiarium" traveled from the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum Fur Gegenwart in Berlin to the Albertina in Vienna, finishing at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark in 2011. His work is included in the collections of the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2012, Ford designed the cover art for the Rolling Stones greatest hits album, ''GRRR!'', which commemorated the band's 50th Anniversary. Ford lives and works in New York City. == Monographs == *Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra Taschen Books, Köln, Germany 2nd edition: 2009 ISBN 978-3-8228-5237-8 *Walton Ford: Tigers of Wrath, Horses of Instruction Harry N. Abrams Book, 2002 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「Walton Ford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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