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'{{Other people2|John Walker (disambiguation)}} '''John Walker''' (born 1939) is an [[England|English]] [[Painting|painter]] and [[Old master print|print]]maker. He has been called "one of the standout abstract painters of the last 50 years."<ref>{{cite news|last1=McQuaid|first1=Cate|title=BU's abstract ace shows his stripes|work=The Boston Globe|date=December 3, 2014}}</ref> Walker studied in [[Birmingham]] at the [[Moseley School of Art]], and later the [[Birmingham School of Art]] and [[Académie de la Grande Chaumière]] in Paris.<ref name="article">{{cite news |last=Grimley |first=Terry |date=May 22, 2003 |title=Art school draws on past strengths. |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Art+school+draws+on+past+strengths.-a0102134663 |deadurl= |newspaper=The Birmingham Post |location= |publisher= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |accessdate=May 14, 2014 }}</ref><ref>http://www.bu.edu/cfa/visual-arts/people/faculty/walker/</ref> Some of his early work was inspired by [[abstract expressionism]] and [[post-painterly abstraction]], and often combined apparently three-dimensional shapes with "flatter" elements. These pieces are usually rendered in [[acrylic paint]]. In the early 1970s, Walker made a series of large ''Blackboard Pieces'' using [[chalk]] and the ''Juggernaut'' works which also use dry [[pigment]]. From the late 1970s, his work marked allusions to earlier painters, such as [[Francisco Goya]], [[Édouard Manet]] and [[Henri Matisse]], either through the quoting of a pictorial motif, or the use of a particular technique. Also during this time, he began to use [[oil paint]] more in his work. His paintings of the 1970s are also notable for what has come to be termed [[canvas]] [[collage]] — the application of glued-on, separately painted patches of canvas to the main canvas (see the external link below for an example and image). After spending some time in [[Australia]], Walker got a position at the Victoria College of the Arts in [[Melbourne]]. He produced the ''Oceania'' series around this time which incorporates elements of native [[Oceania|Oceanic]] art. Walker is currently the head of the graduate painting program at [[Boston University]]. Walker won the 1976 [[John Moores Painting Prize]]<ref>[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/previouswinners/john_walker.asp John Moores Prize]</ref> and was nominated for the [[Turner Prize]] in 1985. In September 2010, Walker and five other British artists including [[Howard Hodgkin]], [[John Hoyland]], [[Ian Stephenson]], [[Patrick Caulfield]] and [[R.B. Kitaj]] were included in an exhibition entitled ''The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art From the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie,'' at the [[Yale Center for British Art]].<ref>[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703384204575510000761287206.html ''Channeling American Abstraction,'' Karen Wilkin, Wall Street Journal] Retrieved October 7, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/nyregion/12artct.html?_r=1&ref=design NY Times, exhibition review] Retrieved December 15, 2010</ref> Walker has a 2008 Landscape Painting on display at the [[National Gallery of Art|National Gallery]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] in the [[Modern Section]]. He also has work in the following public collections: Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Arts Council, England; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, England; The British Museum, London, England; City Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries, England; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Imperial War Museum, London, England; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Iziko Museum of Cape Town, South Africa; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; The Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, England; MIT-List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany; Museum Neuhaus—Sammlung Liaunig, Austria; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Gallery, Edinburgh; Southampton City Art Gallery, England; Tate Gallery, London, England; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland; The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut. In 2010, Walker had a solo exhibition at Tsinghua University in Beijing, images can be viewed at: http://art.china.cn/zixun/2010-03/08/content_3407730.htm ==See also== * [[Boston Expressionism]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[http://nga.gov.au/InternationalPrints/Tyler/Default.cfm?MnuID=3&ArtistIRN=18468&List=True&CREIRN=18468&ORDER_SELECT=13&VIEW_SELECT=5&GrpNam=13&TNOTES=TRUE John Walker in the National Gallery of Australia's Kenneth Tyler Collection] *[https://www.phillipscollection.org/american_art/artwork/Walker-Untitled2020.htm John Walker's ''Untitled'', (1976)] (acrylic, chalk, and [[canvas]] [[collage]] on canvas, 120 x 96 in.; [[Phillips Collection]], [[Washington, DC]]) *[http://www.timolsengallery.com/pages/exhibition_layout.php?exhibition_id=330 Exhibition at Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney Australia] (2012) *{{cite web|title=Beer with a Painter: John Walker|url=http://hyperallergic.com/71393/beer-with-a-painter-john-walker/|publisher=Hyperallergic Media|author=Jennifer Samet|date=18 May 2013}} {{Authority control}} {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME = Walker, John | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = English painter | DATE OF BIRTH = 1939 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Walker, John}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:20th-century English painters]] [[Category:21st-century English painters]] [[Category:English printmakers]] [[Category:Contemporary painters]] [[Category:People from Birmingham, West Midlands]] [[Category:Alumni of Birmingham Institute of Art and Design]] [[Category:Boston University faculty]] [[Category:English contemporary artists]] [[Category:British contemporary artists]]'