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Article: "John Walker: Time and Tides".(art exhibition of landscape and war paintings)(Brief Article)
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- New Criterion
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- April 1, 2001
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"John Walker: Time and Tides," at Knoedler & Company, New York. January 18-March 3, 2001
An English-born resident of Boston, John Walker paints on the littorals of abstraction, informed by its history and aims, but not willing to forsake the bedrock of representation and go fully into the non-objective sea. Of course, this aesthetic position has its own vaunted history, one primarily concerned, like Walker, with abstracting the landscape. To his landscapes, which hover with certainty between the purely abstract and expressionist representation, Walker brings a vigorous brush and a keen eye for the effects of changing light and weather on the Maine coast. But his ...