John Walker
British · b. 1939 · Painter, Printmaker
John Walker is a British-born artist and educator based in the northeast United States. Over a career spanning sixty-plus years, he has received international recognition for a… (Wikipedia)
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Record prices
The Collector No. 3 1985-86Smith & Singer · A$24,400≈ $20,816≈ £13,285≈ €16,755Sign up to see
Tuross River Gorge 2002Menzies · A$17,182≈ $12,535≈ £8,287≈ €11,455Sign up to see
Untitled (Menina)Rago Auctions · $10,625≈ £7,864≈ €9,193Sign up to see
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John Walker is a British-born artist and educator based in the northeast United States. Over a career spanning sixty-plus years, he has received international recognition for a direct, expressive style of painting that merges abstraction, figuration, and diverse pictorial strategies and visual references. Walker typically paints in series distinguished by subject, shape, method or format. He drew critical attention in the 1960s and 1970s, becoming associated with post-war abstraction before developing a lexicon of forms and pattern motifs—their inspirations ranging from Aboriginal art to the costal landscape of Maine—that incorporated representational elements. Summarizing Walker's career, critic John Yau wrote, "Walker has always kept moving. He has never developed a signature motif or brand. [His] cross-pollination of direct observation, his dialogue with art history, autobiography, historical events, such as World War I, and abstraction is part of why he has never fit in. He invites the viewer into a world that is disconsolate, dissonant, elegiacal, haunted, inchoate and primordial … [His] art embodies the desire for artistic freedom in the face of mortality."
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In the collections of
TateArt Gallery of New South WalesArt Institute of ChicagoArts Council Collection, Southbank CentreAuckland Art GalleryBirmingham Museum and Art GalleryBritish MuseumCODA MuseumCleveland Museum of ArtDetroit Institute of ArtsFarnsworth Art MuseumFogg MuseumHerbert F. Johnson Museum of ArtHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenHungarian National GalleryLeeds Art GalleryMetropolitan Museum of ArtMinneapolis Institute of ArtMuseum OstwallMuseum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesMuseum of Fine Arts BostonMuseum of Fine Arts, BudapestMuseum of Fine Arts, HoustonMuseum of Modern ArtNational Gallery of AustraliaNational Gallery of VictoriaNeuberger Museum of ArtScottish National Gallery of Modern ArtSeattle Art MuseumSmithsonian American Art MuseumSolomon R. Guggenheim MuseumSouthampton City Art GalleryStanley & Audrey Burton GalleryThe Phillips CollectionUlster MuseumUniversity of Michigan Museum of ArtVanderbilt Museum of ArtVictoria and Albert MuseumVirginia Museum of Fine Arts and 5 more
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contemporary art
Also known as John Graham Walker, John II Walker, John III Walker, John Walker (1939-)
Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0), Tate collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.