John Havens Thornton 2024-06-27 Auction - 67 Price Results - Vallot Auctioneers in RI
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John Havens Thornton

John Havens Thornton (1933–2021). Sixty-seven paintings from 1967 to 2011.
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Barry Oliver
American & European Fine & Decorative Arts
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): Untitled. 1967. Oil on board. Signed and dated on verso. 24 x 21"; 25.5 x 22.5" (framed). "In 1967, Thornton was invited to show in the Whitney Museum of American Art's 'Annual Exhibition of
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): "Two Figures" Oil on canvas. 24 1/4 x 28 1/4". In the early 1970s Thornton gradually introduced more and more pictorial elements into his abstraction painting which first led to explorations of
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Bowl on table).' Circa 1970s. Oil on canvas. Stamped "Estate of John Haven Thornton" on verso. 24 x 30". (Read about Thornton on Vallots.com).
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Abstract Landscape).' Circa 1970s. Oil on canvas. 24 x 28". (Read more about Thornton on Vallots.com).
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Figure).' 1970. Oil on canvas. Ink stamped "Estate of John Haven Thornton" on verso. 25 x 29 1/4". (Read about Thornton on Vallots.com).
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Still Life Abstraction.' Circa 1970s. Oil on canvas. Labeled with gallery tag on verso with medium, title, name of artist, size and price. 24 x 20". (Read about Thornton on Vallots.com).
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Minimal Waterscape).' Circa 1970s. Oil on canvas. 20 x 26". "In 1973, Thornton produced the first of his so-called “grid paintings” which the artist would return again and again
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Arches).' Circa 1970s. Oil on canvas. 24 x 24" Don Wilkinson, writing for the Standard-Times, once questioned Thornton on what influence did op-art hold on his grid paintings to which
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Club).' Circa 1970s. Oil on canvas, 24 x 24". (Read more about Thornton on Vallots.com.)
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Ribbons).' Circa 1970s. Oil on canvas. 20x24". Thornton continued his artistic training in 1957 at the Arts Student League with the abstract painter Ralston Crawford (1906–1978), a
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Items).' 1971. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on verso on stretcher. 24 x 32". (Read more about Thornton at Vallots.com.)
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): "Two Ladies." 1975. Oil on canvas. 24 x 32". In the late 1950s Thornton fully digested the examples of the New York School in particular the “European émigré Arshile Gorky, and others of the
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Objects).' 1977. Oil on canvas. 22 x 28". (Read more about Thornton on Vallots.com).
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Deconstructed Architecture).' 1978. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on verso. 22 x 28". Over the course of the 1970s, Thornton was granted one-man shows at The School of Art at the Museum
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Forms).' Oil on canvas. Circa 1980s. 18 x 20". (Read more about Thornton on Vallots.com)
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Up and Down).' Circa 1980s. Oil on canvas. 18x22". (Read more about Thornton at Vallots.com)
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Color Grid).' Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. 18 x 22". (Read more about Thornton at Vallots.com)
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled.' 1987. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on verso. 18x24". (Read more about Thornton at Vallots.com.)
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): "Untitled (Figure)." 1987. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on verso. 20 x 18". (Read more about Thornton at Vallots.com)
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Vinnie's Ball series.' 1987. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on verso. 16 x 24". (Read more about Thornton at Vallots.com)
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Vinnie's Ball series.' 1987. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on verso. 16 x 24". (Read more about Thornton at Vallots.com)
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Two Boxes and One Form).' 1988. Signed and dated on verso. Oil on canvas. 22 x 24". (Read more about Thornton at Vallots.com)
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Three Forms on Furniture).' 1987. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on verso. 20 x 24". (Read more about Thornton at Vallots.com)
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John Havens Thornton (1933 - 2021): 'Untitled (Support Columns).' 1988. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on verso. 20 x 24". (Vallots' essay on Thornton can be read on our blog page at Vallots.com.)
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