Hannah's Blue

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I spend a lot of time trying to work out where things meet—where form meets space. I spend a lot of time trying to activate that area. That’s where drawing is. --John Walker

Walker made this work at a moment in his career where he sought to merge some of the lessons of contemporary minimalist sculpture with his painting practice. Specifically, he was experimenting with making shapes into actual objects themselves by collaging pieces of painted canvas onto his painting. He viewed the places where the edges meet as the lines of drawings and deliberately blurred the relationship between the subject or object and the background.

From the 2023 exhibition The Painter's Hand: U.S. Abstraction since 1950, curated by John Stomberg, Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director

Course History

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Daniele Genadry, Summer 2023

Philosophy 1.11, Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty, John Kulvicki, Summer 2023

Philosophy 1.11, Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty, John Kulvicki, Summer 2023

First Year Student Enrichment Program - Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Francine A'Ness, Summer 2023

Studio Art 15.04, Drawing I, Enrico Riley, Fall 2023

Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2023

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Jen Caine, Fall 2023

Writing 5.05, Image and Text, Becky Clark, Fall 2023

Writing 5.06, Image and Text, Becky Clark, Fall 2023

Exhibition History

John Walker, Cuningham Ward, 94 Prince Street, New York, date unknown.

John Walker, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1978.

John Walker, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 28-April 22, 1979; Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, April 27-May 17, 1979; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Medford, Massachusetts, September-October, 1979.

Knoedler & Company, New York, date unknown.

Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, date unknown.

The Painter's Hand: U.S. Abstraction since 1950, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe-Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-December 16, 2023.

Publication History

John Walker, Hugh M. Davies, Nancy Versaci, "John Walker," Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1979.

Provenance

Robert F. and Lynn D. Johnston, Hanover, New Hampshire, about 1978; given to present collection, 2010.

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