$12,000
Acrylic on paper on wood, 48 x 48 inches
John Ashworth (American, b. 1939-)
John Ashworth’s early “pre-education” in art began at age 8 (!), and included trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney, and galleries on 57th Street. His first public showing was in the summer of 1949–age 10 (!)- at Washington Square Park, New York with 100s of folded Rorschach-type blots in poster paint on typing paper, some of which looked like butterflies to the young artist; he cut them out and pasted them onto vertical scrolls displayed on the high iron fence with the work of grown-up artists. They all sold!
Ashworth has been a noted architect and designer, builder of exceptional catamarans, and at 81, a vigorous abstract painter of experimental panels reminiscent of Mark Rothko. We are privileged to have represented the artist since the mid 1960s.
1951–move to Massachusetts where the young artist completed High School in 1956.
1957–Wentworth Institute–Boston, evening school, Applied Industrial Physics.
1957– 1960– Northeastern University, Boston, Civil and Structural Engineering–including an internship in the Engineering Department for the City of White Plains NY.
1962–Harvard School of Design
1963—1966–Boston Museum School–with scholarship support
1968–Harkus Krakow Gallery, Newbury St. Boston
1968–Parker St Gallery Boston
Currier Gallery, Manchester NH. exhibited a large canvas [review-“-among the most satisfying works evoked by the subject of stripes since Morris Louis.” Young New England Painters,” Ringling Museum, Sarasota
Portland Museum of Art , Portland, Maine
Color in Control”– MFA, St. Petersburg, Florida
1969–Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. Group show, Director’s acquisition
1969-Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, Fla., “Tarwater,” 72″x 72″
1970–Thayer Academy, Braintree, MA.,”Fan Paintings”
1971–1975
ATT Main Lobby, Boston, 8ft x 18ft Painting
Ipswich, MA. Cherry Island–Kinetic Sculpture
Maudslay State Park, Newburyport, MA., “Skylines”
Pingree School Hamilton, MA.,”Stix”
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Denenberg Collection, Los Angeles
Laurent Gache, Art Appraiser, Los Angeles
Eugenio Lopez/The Jumex Museum, Mexico City and Los Angeles