Permanent Collection Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
2011.027.001 |
Collection |
Painting Collection |
Title |
Buttoning Down for Winter |
Date |
1989 |
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 |
Acrylic, Masonite |
Technique |
Painted |
Height (in) |
24.000 |
Width (in) |
36.000 |
Culture |
American |
School |
Folk Art |
Place of Origin |
Rix Mills, Ohio, United States |
Credit Line |
Purchase, Ayers Collection Fund |
People |
Purchase, Ayers Collection Fund |
Search Terms |
Acrylic Paintings American Art American Artists American Folk Art American Paintings Animals Autumn Birds Buildings Cars Carts Churches Corn Shocks Cows Dogs Fall Fences Fields Figures, Children Figures, Men Figures, Women Fires Folk Art Grass Hills Houses Landscapes Memory Paintings Ohio Art Ohio Artists Paintings Plows Rix Mills, Ohio Seasons Self-Taught Artists Sky Towns Trees Villages |
Location |
On view in the R. Donald Cultice Family Hallway Gallery, 3rd Floor |