Walton Ford - Modern and Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 15, 2009 | Phillips

Create your first list.

Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.

  • Catalogue Essay

    "Anybody who reads up on Audubon is going to have mixed feelings about him," he told me. "He was a braggart, a liar, and just too trigger-happy, even for that time.  He killed hundreds and hundreds of birds he didn't need.  He shot things off the deck of a ship, and just let them fall in the ocean.  As I often say, he was more like a National Rifle Association guy than an Audubon Society guy.  But the paintings are beautiful."
    (Walton Ford quoted in Calvin Tompkins, The New Yorker, January 6, 2009, p. 54)

352

New Tricks for Ancient Wings

2001
Lithograph in colors, on Somerset Velvet paper, with full margins,
I. 33 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (85.1 x 62.2 cm);
S. 36 1/4 x 27 3/4 in. (92.1 x 70.5 cm)

signed, dated `2001' and numbered 42/90 in pencil (there were also 20 artist's proofs), co-published by the artist, Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts, and Derriere L'Etoile Studios, New York, in excellent condition, unframed.

Estimate
$2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for $3,000

Modern and Contemporary Editions

15 Nov 2009
New York