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John Nathaniel Fenton (American, 1912 -1977) Collection of Etchings original& Ephemera, Woodstock, NY Artist
John Nathaniel Fenton (American, 1912-1977). Collection of original sketches nine etchings, including Colloquy, Family Walk, Cortege & several which are untitled. Most are titled and/or signed to front or verso; Also included are two sketch books, comprising 18 studio life drawings of female subjects total, most are signed; two exhibit posters for exhibit at the Miami Museum of Modern Art, 1971, gallery material for Babcock Galleries, NY, an exhibit at the brooklyn center, long island university; various newspaper clippings related to exhibits at the woodstock art association.
Painter, printmaker and teacher, John Fenton was born in mountaindale, new york. He moved with his family to mount vernon, new york, where he lived for some thirty years before settling permanently in woodstock, new york. He attended the art student’s league of new york and atelier 17, paris. His work was the focus of a number of one-man shows during the 1950’s and 1960’s, and was exhibited in numerous museums and galleries including the art institute of chicago, The museum of modern art in new york, the corcoran gallery in washington, dc;. and the pennsylvania academy. Fenton taught at new york university and goddard college. His distinctly surrealist work won awards from the american academy of arts and letters, the national academy of design, and numerous other institutions, and is included in the collections of the smithsonian american art museum, the corcoran gallery among others. Mr. Fenton produced a film short on fifty of his paintings, ‘The Black Cat’ which was shown in theatres throughout the united states, and was invited for showing at the cannes film festival in 1961. He died in woodstock in 1977.
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