Walton Ford | Art21 | PBS

This is a link to the Walter Ford Art21 video brought to you by PBS. Born in 1960 in Larchmont, New York Walton had a fascination with the American Museum of Natural History. He became in a way a young aspiring naturalist as he began to sketch the exhibits often. He originally wanted to be a film maker graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design but soon aimed his creative talents in a different form of art, watercolor paintings. Walton uses a combination of techniques to recreate images that resemble the work of the well-known french american painter of birds and many more, John James Audubon. He simultaneously celebrates his work but also critiques history and these type of "heroes" with a slight repositioning. Here you can see Walton's odd but charming sense of humor. Though dark in a way he draws to importance many unknown features that the early adventurer, colonialist, naturalist in america consisted of.