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Florian K. Lawton
Location: Ohio
Media: Watercolor
Style: Realism / Folk
Art Group Affiliations: iSmudge - (4is)
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Florian Lawtons remarkable talent was evident at an early age and developed rapidly. He studied the watercolor medium while overseas in Asia with the armed forces, continued his art education at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the John Huntington Institute. As his style emerged, he taught at the Cooper School of At, Cleveland Institute of Art, and leads private workshops throughout the United States and Europe.
Florian looks at the world at large with a glint in his eye and what he sees must look mighty good to him. His subjects are usually the basis of an artistic commentary on the American Scene, a term once mentioned to Edward Hopper in a questionable way when he visited Youngstown in the 1950s and his tart reply was whats wrong with that! In these later times of so much crudity and meaningless minimalism prominent in new art, Lawton stands tall as a technically accomplished artist, and to repeat Hoppers words, whats wrong with that! - Clyde J. Singer, Associate Director at the Butler Institute of American Art.
Public Collections
· American Ship Building, NYC
· American Society of Metals, Burton, OH
· Banc Ohio, Columbus, OH
· Cole-National, Cleveland, OH
· Day-Glo Corporation, OH
· Eaton Corporation, NY
· General Electric, Cincinnati, OH
· Kaiser-Permanente
· King Kahlid, Saudi Arabia
· TRW, Cleveland, OH
· Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
· BP Oil Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Lawton is listed in the Whos Who in American Art. He is a featured artist with Mill Pond Press. He is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Midwest Watercolor Society and Whiskey Painters of America and the Akron Society of Artists. His awards pass the 60 mark and a like amount for one man shows nationally.
Selected Exhibitions
· American Watercolor Society, NYC
· Butler Institute of American Art, National Annual
· Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show
· Chautauqua Annuals, Chautauqua NY
· Adirondack National Exhibitions of Watercolors, NY
· Audubon Artists Juried Annual Exhibition, NYC
· Rocky Mountain Aquarelle Show, Golden CO
· Art for the Parks, National Parks of the U.S. Top 100 1996, and 1997, Jackson Hole WY
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