Walton Ford
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Walton Ford is an American visual artist who makes paintings and prints in the style of naturalist illustrations, often depicting extinct species. In his more recent series of work such as shown in hi
Ford in 2020
Dying Words, 2005, color etching, aquatint and drypoint on paper by Walton Ford, Honolulu Museum of Art
Karl Bodmer
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Johann Carl Bodmer was a Swiss-French printmaker, etcher, lithographer, zinc engraver, draughtsman, painter, illustrator, and hunter. Known as Karl Bodmer in literature and paintings, his name was rec
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…painting, The Death of General Wolfe. Walton Ford appropriates the crisp, descriptive style of 19th-century naturalists and artists—John James Audubon, Karl Bodmer, George Catlin—but he puts their conventions to work in an investigation of natural history itself. Repurposing a field-guide aesthetic, Ford composes…
Bodmer depicted in a Woodburytype portrait in 1877
Fort Pierre on the Missouri an aquatint from Maximilian, Prince of Wied’s Travels in the Interior of North America (1843-1844)
Scalp Dance of the Minitarres
View of Bethlehem, an 1832 aquatint of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania by Bodmer