Walton Ford

Walton Ford
1960-
Chicago Field Museum Gorilla Study
ca. 2015
Graphite and colored pencil on beige paper
8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (21.6 x 14.9 cm)
Gift of the artist.
© 2023 Walton Ford
2019.195
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Walton Ford established his reputation in the 1990s with his monumental watercolor paintings of wild animals inspired by true or legendary stories of dramatic encounters between man and nature. Fascinated by the perception of wilderness in the collective imagination, and a keen observer of animal anatomy and behavior, Ford develops complex narratives that have renewed the genre of animal painting, represented in the past by artists such as Eugène Delacroix, Antoine-Louis Barye, and John James Audubon. To prepare his large-scale works, Ford produces a vast number of studies, such as this one, often made from observation in zoos and museums of natural history.

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