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John Walker Biography
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1939 |
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Born, November 12, Birmingham, England
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1956 - 1960 |
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Studied at Birmingham School of Art
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1960 |
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Arts Council Drawing Prize
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1961 |
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First Prize: National Young Artists Drawing Competition
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1961 - 1963 |
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Studied at Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris
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1965 |
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Third Prize: John Moores Liverpool Exhibition
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1966 |
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Arts Council Drawing Prize
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1967 - 1969 |
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Arts Council Purchase Award
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1969 - 1971 |
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Resided in New York as recipient of Harkness Fellowship
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1974 |
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Second Prize, John Moores Liverpool Exhibition
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1974 |
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First Prize, Bradford International Print Biennale, Yorkshire
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1976 |
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First Prize John Moores Liverpool Exhibition
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1981 |
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Guggenheim Fellowship
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1985 |
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Shortlisted for The Turner Prize
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2001 |
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The Benjamin Altman Prize for Excellence in Painting, The 177th Annual, National Academy of Design, New York
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2003 |
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Kahn Award, Boston University
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2004 |
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Academy Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
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Professor of Graduate Painting, Director of The Graduate Painting Program, Boston University since 1993. Resides and works in Boston and in Walpole, Maine.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2006
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Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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2006
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Reverence: Awe, Admiration, Love, Devotion, Honor, Respect, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
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2006
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Landscaping, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York
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2006
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John Walker: Selected Work, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York (solo)
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2006
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John Walker: Seal Point Series, Knoedler & Company, New York (solo)
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2006
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John Walker: Passing Bells, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts (solo)
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2006
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John Walker: Seal Point Series, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts (solo)
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2005
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John Walker: Collage. Knoedler & Company, New York, Catalogue with text by Dore Ashton (solo)
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2005
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John Walker: Works on Paper 1990–2004, Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Traveled to Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Catalogue with text by Ruth Fine. (solo)
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2005
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John Walker: New Work, The Pierrepont Gallery, Bridport, West Dorset, England (solo)
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2005
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The Continuous Mark: 40 Years of the New York Studio School. The New York Studio School, New York, Jennifer Samet, guest curator.
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2004
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American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
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2004
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March Heat, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
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2004
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Art & The 60s: This Was Tomorrow. Tate Britain, London. Catalogue with text by Chris Stephens and Katharine Stout.
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2004
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John Walker: A Winter in Maine, 2003–2004. Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, July 29–August 29. Traveled to University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Catalogue with text by Bruce Brown (solo)
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2004
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Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts: John Walker: New Paintings (solo)
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2003
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John Walker: Changing Light. Knoedler & Company, New York, Catalogue with text by Eliza Rathbone (solo)
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2002 - 2003
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Painting in Boston: 1950–2000. De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln. Catalogue with text by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, John Stomberg, Nicholas Capasso, Carl Belz, and Ann Wilson Lloyd.
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2002
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Special (untitled) installation of works selected from the permanent collection by John Walker, curator. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
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2002
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The 177th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York
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2002
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John Walker. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Catalogue with text by Eliza Rathbone. (solo)
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2002
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John Walker: Oceans, Tidepools and Plein Air Paintings. Wiegand Art Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, California, Catalogue with text by Bruce Brown. (solo)
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2002
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John Walker: Paintings and Prints. DAAP Galleries at the University of Cincinnati (solo)
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2001
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John Walker: Time and Tides. Knoedler & Company, New York, Catalogue with text by Jack Flam. (solo)
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2001
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A Maine Tidal Cove: Paintings by John Walker. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Catalogue with text by Katy Kline (solo)
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2001
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John Walker: Maine Landscapes. Nielsen Gallery, Boston (solo)
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2001
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A Master Class: British Class—John Hoyland, John Walker, Basil Beattie, John Edwards. Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
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1999
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John Walker: Passing Bells. Nielsen Gallery, Boston/Knoedler & Company, New York (solo)
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1999
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The Anthony and Madeleine Carter Gift of Paintings and Drawings by John Walker. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Brochure with text by Patrick McCaughey. (solo)
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1999
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40 Years of American Drawings. Raab Galerie, Berlin
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Public Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Birmingham City Art Galleries, England
British Council, London, England
The British Museum, London
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Camden Library, London, England
Carnegie Library, Portsmouth, England
Chemical Bank, New York, New York
City Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries, England
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Durham University Museum, England
Exxon Corporation, New York, New York
The Farnsworth Art Museum & Wyeth Center, Rockland, Maine
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Gelco Collection, Minnesota
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Leicestershire Education Authority, England
McCrory Corporation, New York, New York
Merrill Lynch, New York, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Middlesborough City Art Gallery, England
MIT-List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
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, DC
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
Paine Webber Group, Inc. New York, New York
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, New Jersey
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Dean Gallery, Edinburgh
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Tate Gallery, London
Trevelyan College, Durah University (Dining Hall Commission)
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
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