Lithograph in colors on Somerset Velvet
USA, 2001
Walton Ford (b. 1960) – American naturalist artist
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered ‘40/90’
Co-published by the artist and Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Printed by Derriere L’Etoile Studios, New York
Full margins
Dimensions: 36 x 27 ½ in. (91.4 x 69.9 cm.)
Very good condition
Estimate $2,000-$2,200

Ford’s popular watercolors and prints herald the artist’s continued interest in depicting animals interacting to survive with humans. This print, like many of his works, depicts an uneasy alliance. When the print last appeared at auction at Phillips, New York in 2009, it fetched $3,000. Since that time, interest in Walton Ford’s prints has grown exponentially.

Walton Ford (American, b. 1960)

Walton Ford is an American printmaker and painter, known for his large-scale watercolors painted in the style of the Naturalist Illustration Movement. Through his methodical depictions of flora and fauna, the artist references John James Audubon in a sarcastic and playful critique of humanity. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island and currently works and lives in New York. From 2010-2011, Ford’s retrospective traveled from the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum Fur Gegenwart in Berlin, to the Albertina in Vienna and to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Ford’s work is included in various public and private collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Condition

In overall good condition.

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