Permanent Collection Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
2011.027.002 |
Collection |
Painting Collection |
Title |
4H Club Meeting |
Date |
1997 |
Artist |
Paul Patton (1921-1999) |
Signature |
P Patton 1997 |
Signature Location |
Bottom of canvas, viewer's left |
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, Canvas |
Technique |
Painted |
Height (in) |
18.000 |
Width (in) |
24.000 |
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 |
4-H Clubs Acrylic Paintings American Art American Artists American Folk Art American Paintings Animals Barns Buildings Clothing / Dress Clouds Corn Shocks Cows Dogs Farms Fences Fields Figures, Children Figures, Men Fires Folk Art Hay Hills Horses Houses Landscapes Memory Paintings Night Scenes Ohio Art Ohio Artists Overalls Paintings Rix Mills, Ohio Seasons Self-Taught Artists Sky Smoke Stars Summer Sunsets Towns Trees |
Location |
On view in the R. Donald Cultice Family Hallway Gallery, 3rd Floor |