John Walker

(British, born 1939)

John Walker is a British-born artist whose painterly abstractions insinuate dimensional spaces and objects. Incorporating flat collaged spaces and pictograph-like symbols, his dynamic compositions cite multiple source materials. Drawing inspiration from English poetry, Francisco Goya, Édouard Manet, and the Aboriginal art of Polynesia and Australia. “If you accept that paint is colored mud, and you put it on a canvas, you realize it is only a genius, like Turner or Rembrandt, who can turn it into air,” he mused. “It is the height of ambition, it seems to me, to be a painter. How do you do this: turn it into air, or a piece of silk, or a piece of flesh?” Born on November 23, 1939 in Birmingham, United Kingdom, he studied at the Moseley School of Art in Birmingham and later at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Walker is a Professor Emeritus of Art and the former head of the graduate program in painting at Boston University School of Visual Arts. His works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Tate Gallery in London, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art among others. Walker lives and works in Boston, MA.

John Walker Artworks

John Walker (389 results)
Abstract

John Walker

Abstract

Sale Date: January 27, 2009

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Form & image, 1982–1983

John Walker

Form & image, 1982–1983

Sale Date: December 17, 2008

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Untitled 1, 1985

John Walker

Untitled 1, 1985

Sale Date: December 17, 2008

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Untitled - 111, 1985

John Walker

Untitled - 111, 1985

Sale Date: July 15, 2008

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Mirramina no. 1, 1987

John Walker

Mirramina no. 1, 1987

Sale Date: May 20, 2008

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Untitled, 1968

John Walker

Untitled, 1968

Sale Date: April 16, 2008

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Untitled, 1972

John Walker

Untitled, 1972

Sale Date: April 16, 2008

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Drawing, 1967

John Walker

Drawing, 1967

Sale Date: April 16, 2008

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Form in a landscape (+ 32 others; 33 works)

John Walker

Form in a landscape (+ 32 others; 33 works)

Sale Date: March 19, 2008

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Untitled, 1987

John Walker

Untitled, 1987

Sale Date: November 17, 2007

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Untitled, 1984

John Walker

Untitled, 1984

Sale Date: November 7, 2007

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Untitled, 1972

John Walker

Untitled, 1972

Sale Date: June 18, 2007

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Small Totem, 1981

John Walker

Small Totem, 1981

Sale Date: June 7, 2007

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Untitled (+ another; 2 works from Creekside), 1989

John Walker

Untitled (+ another; 2 works from Creekside), 1989

Sale Date: April 4, 2007

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Ohne Titel, 1987

John Walker

Ohne Titel, 1987

Sale Date: December 8, 2006

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Untitled, 1988

John Walker

Untitled, 1988

Sale Date: November 18, 2006

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Blackboard series, 1966–1967

John Walker

Blackboard series, 1966–1967

Sale Date: November 2, 2006

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Untitled (6 works), 1965–1973

John Walker

Untitled (6 works), 1965–1973

Sale Date: April 18, 2006

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Spirals, 1988

John Walker

Spirals, 1988

Sale Date: April 12, 2006

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Abstract composition, 1975

John Walker

Abstract composition, 1975

Sale Date: December 6, 2005

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Canoe, 1988

John Walker

Canoe, 1988

Sale Date: November 24, 2003

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Untitled, 1984

John Walker

Untitled, 1984

Sale Date: April 20, 2005

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Sans titre, 1974

John Walker

Sans titre, 1974

Sale Date: February 23, 2005

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Untitled, 1961

John Walker

Untitled, 1961

Sale Date: November 30, 2004

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