Permanent Collection Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
1990.15580 |
Collection |
itionPainting Collection |
Title |
Winter Party |
Date |
1988 |
Artist |
Paul Patton (1921-1999) |
Signature |
PPatton |
Signature Location |
Bottom of canvas, viewer's right |
Description |
Paul Patton (1921-1999) was raised in the small, rural, Appalachian town of Rix Mills, Ohio. A trained pilot and educator, Patton was also a self-taught artist. With no formal artistic training, Patton painted hundreds of naturalistic "memory paintings" that recall a lost way of life in rural America. He was inspired to paint the picnics, winter outings, and campfires in the fields, rivers, and hills of his youth after he returned to Rix Mills in 1985 and found the town and landscape unrecognizable due to the impact of strip-mining in the region. As a folk artist, Patton's colorful, nostalgic compositions, with their simplified figures, flattened forms, and dramatic perspective, capture bucolic life in Ohio in the first half of the twentieth century. |
Medium |
Oil, Canvas |
Technique |
Painted |
Culture |
American |
School |
Folk Art |
Place of Origin |
Rix Mills, Ohio, United States |
Credit Line |
Purchase, Friends of Art |
People |
Purchase, Friends of Art |
Search Terms |
Acrylic Paintings American Art American Artists American Folk Art American Paintings Animals Buildings Churches Dogs Fences Figures, Children Figures, Men Figures, Women Folk Art Hills Landscapes Memory Paintings Night Scenes Ohio Art Ohio Artists Paintings Rix Mills, Ohio Seasons Self-Taught Artists Sky Sleds Smoke Snow Stars Towns Villages Winter |
Location |
On view in the R. Donald Cultice Family Hallway Gallery, 3rd Floor |