Walton Ford
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BiographyBorn in Westchester County, New York, 1960
Lives & Works in Manhattan, New York -
"No one else, to my knowledge, has ever done watercolors of this size and ambition... and no contemporary artist has employed natural history to tell the kind of stories that Ford tells."
—Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker -
Photo by Paul Kasmin
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Installation view of "Walton Ford,” Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
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WorksExhibitions
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Walton Ford: Watercolor Studies
Online June 18 – July 19, 2024 -
Walton Ford: 25 Years of Printmaking
Online June 28 – August 11, 2023To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Walton Ford's first editioned print, Swadeshi-cide (1998), Kasmin is releasing rarely-available copies of the original Limited Art Editions of Pancha Tantra, published by Taschen. This release is contextualized by an online exhibition of a selection of the artist's print works. Spanning the years 1998-2020, the presentation demonstrates Ford's impressive command of the historic technique of intaglio etching and recognizes the invaluable partnership of Peter and James Pettengill's Wingate Studio, where Ford produced each of the works.View More -
Walton Ford: Barbary
October 10 – December 22, 2018 509 West 27th Street, New YorkKasmin is pleased to present Barbary, a new body of large-scale watercolors by Walton Ford that will inaugurate the gallery’s flagship space in Chelsea, New York.View More -
Walton Ford: Watercolors
May 1 – June 21, 2014Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce Watercolors, an exhibition of new paintings by Walton Ford on view May 1 - June 21, 2014 at 293 Tenth Avenue, New York. Ford continues to explore the visual and narrative scope of traditional natural history painting with his monumental watercolors, chronicling encounters between human culture and the natural world. Several pieces in this exhibition will expand upon Ford's longstanding practice of incorporating written marginalia in his work, and feature for the first time musings penned by the artist from the perspective of his animal subjects.View More -
Walton Ford: I Don't Like To Look At Him, Jack. It Makes Me Think Of That Awful Day On The Island
November 3 – December 23, 2011 293 Tenth Avenue, New York -
Walton Ford: Bestiarium
At The Hamburger Bahnof in Berlin January 23 – May 24, 2010 -
Walton Ford: New Work
November 12 – December 23, 2009 293 Tenth Avenue, New York -
Walton Ford
May 8 – July 3, 2008 293 Tenth Avenue, New York
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Walton Ford
Fourth Edition Of Pancha Tantra July 23, 2020 View More -
Walton Ford interviewed in Apollo Magazine
by Thomas Marks October 24, 2018The American artist is well known for his large-scale watercolours of birds and beasts. His current exhibition at Kasmin Gallery, New York, reimagines the life...View More -
Walton Ford featured in The New York Times
by Matthew Rose September 21, 2015 View More -
Walton Ford interviewed in Wall Street Journal
By Claire Howorth April 30, 2014The 54-year-old artist has become famous for monumental wildlife pieces that bring a primal kingdom indoors. As he embarks on the next chapter of his...View More -
Walton Ford featured in The New Yorker
by Calvin Tomkins January 18, 2009The Tasmanian wolf, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was neither a wolf nor a tiger. It was a thylacine, a marsupial cousin to kangaroos...View More
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