Walton Ford, Eothen, 2001, Watercolor, gouache, pencil and ink on paper, 40 x 60 inches (101.6 x 152.4 cm.), Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery

WEST PALM BEACH.- The Norton Museum of Art will display more than thirty of Walton Ford’s meticulously rendered watercolors of vividly imagined birds, snakes, monkeys, and tigers from June 16 to September 2, 2007. Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford, is comprised of large-scale watercolors created between 1990 and the present exploring such themes as colonialism, the naturalist tradition, and the extinction of species. Using the animal kingdom as a mirror of the human world, Ford employs his skill as an artist and observer to communicate his views on society. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20263

Walton Ford, His Chaplain, 2003, Watercolor, gouache, pencil and ink on paper, 62 1/2 x 43 inches framed, Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery