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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.

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 Dying Words , 2005
6 plate hardground etching, aquatint, spit-bite aquatint and drypoint.
edition 75
22 x 30 inches
Published by Paul Kasmin

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 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

 

 

 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

 

 

 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

 

 

 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

 

 

 La 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

 

 

 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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