Permanent Collection Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
2011.001.001 |
Collection |
Painting Collection |
Title |
The Different Drummer |
Date |
Circa 1985 |
Artist |
Paul Patton (1921-1999) |
Signature |
Patton |
Signature Location |
Partial signature on viewer's bottom 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 Paint, Canvas, Board |
Technique |
Painted |
Height (in) |
16.750 |
Width (in) |
20.750 |
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 Buildings Cars Churches Cityscapes Clouds Figures, Men Folk Art Folk Artists Houses Landscapes Memory Paintings Moonlight Night Scenes Ohio Art Ohio Artists Paintings Rix Mills, Ohio Roads Seasons Self-Taught Artists Sky Smoke Snow Stars Towns Trees Villages Winter |
Location |
Not on view |