[Untitled]
Object Label
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.
Caption
Walton Ford American, born 1960. [Untitled], 1989. Oil on wood, frame: 10 3/4 × 9 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (27.3 × 24.8 × 3.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Lindenbaum, 2007.4.4. © artist or artist's estate
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
[Untitled]
Date
1989
Medium
Oil on wood
Classification
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.
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Lindenbaum
Accession Number
2007.4.4
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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