For the many people, whether tourists or natives, whose favorite
memories of paintings of Maine are largely defined by the work of Winslow Homer
in the 19th century and the Wyeth clan in the 20th, the art of John Walker is
bound to come as something of a shock. Everything traditionally associated with
the beloved Read More
This is mud season in Maine, where not only ice and snow but earth itself seems to melt beneath one’s feet into an alien, unstable support that is neither land nor sea but something akin to the planet’s primeval ooze. It’s a season that only painters of a certain sensibility-Albert Pinkham Ryder, perhaps, or Ralph Read More
When 20-year-old San Anselmo, Calif., native John Walker headed
to Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban, he presumably renounced the commercial,
capitalistic
impulses that have contributed to the United States’ bad
reputation abroad.
But even before the prison
ship U.S.S. Bataan unloads its
notorious cargo in Cuba and the next step of Mr. Walker’s Read More
The situation of John Walker, as the Taliban soldier who calls himself Abdul Hamid is known in his homeland, appears straightforward and quite simple.
He joined a foreign army–and perhaps an international-terrorist subset of that army–that initiated hostilities against the United States, including the murder of thousands of innocent civilians. He participated in armed violence Read More
The English-born painter John Walker, whose work is
currently the subject of a compelling exhibition at Knoedler & Company, now
teaches at Boston University and has lately been painting in Maine. He is,
among much else, an Expressionist with an appetite for big, elegiac subjects.
He is also an Abstractionist with a yearning for the Read More
