Abstract Art
His work can be divided into two styles, abstract expressionist, from the early nineteen fifties until the mid seventies and trompe l’oeil which extended until the end of his life. His ability to make the transition from abstract to realism in such a clear manner is a quality rarely found.
Artworks presented are all oil on canvas
Still-life Paintings
American Indian paintings and Western cowboys scenes are commonly collected in the Midwest states like Taxes, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada. The second wave painters of this type of genre and artwork are painted by artists who are feeding the collectors on the concept of romancing “the good old west “. by painting pictures and images of one being in the fresh and open space of the old America with the fast land of the wild West. Disconnected away from a century of industrial civilization.
John Axton is one of few artists who painted still-life of objects that display American Indians artifacts. He used his photo-realism style in documenting the daily objects which were used in their life. This album of paintings is from the Museum Archive.
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About The Artist
John T. Axton III
The Artist’s reflection in his painting
Axton was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on June 28, 1922. Raised and educated on Army posts in various parts of the U.S. Studied at the Georgia School of Technology, earned a BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design (Missouri) in 1951, and a MFA from the Yale Univ. School of Fine Art in 1954 where he studied with Joseph Albers, Ad Reinhardt and Stuart Davis.
His early work was comprised of detailed abstract designs and patterns which comprised the whole. Later his paintings concentrated on the details of realism, incorporating historical artifacts, primarily from the Southwest. Taught design at the University of California, Berkeley in 1966.
Exhibitions: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1964; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1965.
John Thomas Axton III died September 4, 2009 at his home in Dolores Heights, San Francisco, California.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (October 2, 2009)
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, “Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)”
Who’s Who in American Art. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1936-1970; Falk, Peter, Ed. Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, c1999. 3v.; http://www.totalartsgallery.com/artist/John_Axton.html, accessed June 11, 2008.
The Artist John T. Axton
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