Walter Askin

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Walter Askin
Born1929
Pasadena, California[1]
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forPrintmaking

Walter Miller Askin (born 1929) is an American artist and educator, best known for his printmaking, who also paints and sculpts.[2][3]

Early life and education[]

Askin was born in Pasadena, California in 1929.[1] His father was a draftsperson who worked for the city of Pasadena, and his brother was an architect. He learned to draw from an early age.[4] Askin studied art at Pasadena City College with Leonard Edmondson and went on to study at University of California, Berkeley.[5]

Work[]

Askin's work has been described as lighthearted and humorous, with an undercurrent of a serious tone, including content on the "dichotomous relationship between the sexes and the criticism of art itself." He has been inspired by both Western and non-Western art.[4]

Work by Askin was included in the 1956 group exhibition Recent Drawings U.S.A. at MoMA,[6] [3] the Kunstlerhaus Vienna, [1] the Whitney Museum of Art[1] and other venues. In 2016, his work was part of the two-person show, Reality Reorganized: Walter Askin and Wayne Kimball’s Mysterious Discursions at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art.[1]

Askin was Professor of Art at California State University, Los Angeles from 1956 to 1992.[7]

A recorded interview and transcript of the interview is available at the Smithsonian American Archives of Art.[2] An archive of his papers from 1950–1992 is held in the Archives of American Art.[8]

Collections[]

His work is included in collections of the National Gallery of Art,[9] the Norton Simon Museum,[4] the Albright Knox Gallery,[10] Princeton University Art Museum[11] and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Artist Bio: Walter Askin". Brigham Young University Museum of Art. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Oral history interview with Walter Askin, 1992 March 4-6". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
  3. ^ a b Silsbee, Kirk (10 October 2015). "Walter Askin's Luckman Gallery show is a retrospective in some respects". Los Angeles Times/Glendale News Press. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  4. ^ a b c "Polyplanograph » Norton Simon Museum". www.nortonsimon.org. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
  5. ^ "Walter Askin". laprintmaking.com. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
  6. ^ "Walter Askin | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
  7. ^ "Emeriti Faculty - California State University, Los Angeles - Acalog ACMS™". ecatalog.calstatela.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
  8. ^ "Walter Askin papers, [ca. 1950-1992]". Archives of American Art (Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  9. ^ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
  10. ^ "Walter Askin". Albright Knox Gallery. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Walter Askin (American, born 1929)". Princeton University Art Museum. Retrieved 30 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ "Walter Askin". Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
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