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Walton
Ford.
Born 1960.
Walton Ford's prints and paintings look like large-scale descendents
of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century
tradition of natural history painting and engraving. His life size
birds and animals often serve as metaphorical stand-ins for different
cultures in allegorical narratives. Extinction, cultural mis-connection,
greed, power, natural history, humor, the grotesque, are all repeating
elements in Ford's work.
Condemned,
is our latest print from Walton Ford. The 21 1/2 x 16 inch image
features a Carolina Parakeet contemplating his inevitable extinction.
We have just completed the edition of 75 and the print is currently
available from the Paul Kasmin Gallery and through Wingate Studio.
We also have Dying Words and Bangalore prints available from Wingate
Studio.
Walton began work on the set of six large bird images back in 1998,
beginning with Swadeshi-cide, and it took until 2004 to finish Visitation,
the final print in the series. Originally conceived to be on a scale
with the engravings from John James Audubon's "The Birds of
America", these prints are all six plate, multicolor etchings.
Walton spent untold hours drawing, stopping out, etching and re-etching,
burnishing and adding drypoint to the plates. The whole set was
included in the show, “Political Nature” at the Whitney
Museum of American Art in 2005 and is part of their collection.
Wingate Studio has a very limited number of these prints available
for sale, as does the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York.
Walton
Ford is also featured in season 2 of the PBS series Art
21. For videos, images, and interviews, visit Walton
Ford's page at the Art 21 website.
All
images courtesy of Paul
Kasmin Gallery and the artist.
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Limed
Blossoms ,
2007
6 plate hardground etching, aquatint, spit-bite aquatint,
drypoint, scraping an burnishing.
edition 100
18 1/2 x 14 inches
Published by Taschen
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Condemned,
2006
6 plate hardground etching, aquatint, spit-bite aquatint,
drypoint, scraping an burnishing.
edition 75
21 1/2 x 16 inches
Published by Wingate Studio and Paul Kasmin Editions
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Dying
Words , 2005
6 plate hardground etching, aquatint, spit-bite aquatint
and drypoint.
edition 75
22 x 30 inches
Published by Paul Kasmin |
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Bangalore,
2004
5 plate hardground and etching, aquatint, spit-bite
aquatint and drypoint.
edition 75
21 1/2 x 16 inches
Published by Paul Kasmin Editions
PKE 7152
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Visitation,
2004
six color hardground and softground etching, aquatint, spit-bite aquatint,
drypoint
edition of 50
published by Blue Heron Press
44 x 31 inches
111.8 x 78.7 cm.
PKE 7539 |
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Compromised,
2002
six color hardground and softground etching, aquatint,
spit-bite aquatint, drypoint and roulette
edition of 50
published
by Blue Heron Press
44 x 31 inches
111.8 x 78.7 cm.
PKE 6503 |
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Tale
of Johnny Nutkin,
2001
six color hardground and softground etching, aquatint,
spit-bite aquatint and drypoint.
edition 50
published
by Blue Heron Press
44 x 31 inches
111.8 x 78.7 cm.
PKE 5601 |
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Benjamin's
Emblem, 2000
six color hardground and softground etching, aquatint,
spit-bite aquatint and drypoint.
edition 50
published
by Blue Heron Press
44 x 31 inches
111.8 x 78.7 cm.
PKE 5273 |
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Historia Me Absolvera,
1999
six color hardground and softground etching, aquatint,
spit-bite aquatint and drypoint.
edition 50
published
by Blue Heron Press
44 x 31 inches
111.8 x 78.7 cm.
PKE 4619 |
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Swadeshi-cide,
1998
six color hardground and softground etching, aquatint,
spit-bite aquatint and drypoint.
edition 50
published
by Blue Heron Press
44 x 31 inches
111.8 x 78.7 cm.
PKE 4295 |
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