John Axton iii (1922-2009) American, 1959 Oil on Canvas, "City at Night #3". Titled on San Francisco Gallery label.
Overall Size: 53 1/2 x 29 1/4 in.
Sight Size: 52 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.
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.
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