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Walton Ford
Contemporary Art
Walton Ford draws his inspiration from the work of such artists as the fifteenth- to sixteenth-century fantasy painter Hieronymus Bosch, the nineteenth-century naturalist John James Audubon, and the nineteenth-century French caricaturist J. J. Grandville, whose parthuman, part-animal subjects satirize man’s shortcomings. Although very different from Ford’s more recent watercolors, these four early oil paintings, a series of family portraits where the image is complicated and turned grotesque by the juxtaposition of repulsive elements close to the sitter’s face, hint at the artist’s continuing interest in the association of man and animal. Ford often explores this interest in relation to the history of colonialism, nineteenth-century industrialism, or contemporary politics.
MEDIUM
Oil on wood
DATES
1989
DIMENSIONS
frame: 10 3/4 × 9 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (27.3 × 24.8 × 3.8 cm)
INSCRIPTIONS
Inscribed "Walton Ford 1989, The Blood Remembers, Fourth set of four, #16" in graphite verso.
ACCESSION NUMBER
2007.4.4
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Lindenbaum
PROVENANCE
Prior to 2007, provenance not yet documented; by 2007, acquired by Samuel H. Lindenbaum and Linda M. Lewis Lindenbaum (Mrs. Samuel H. Lindenbaum) of New York, NY; 2007, gift of Samuel H. Lindenbaum and Linda M. Lewis Lindenbaum to the Brooklyn Museum.
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