Walton Ford: Calafia Dino Buzzati pharmaceuticals

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From his pioneering use in the 1970s of backlit color transparencies to his intricately constructed scenes of enigmatic incidents from daily life

Beginning with the first Spot painting created in 1986

The volume includes a text by Joan Simon

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Walton Ford: Calafia Dino Buzzati pharmaceuticalsThis book was published on the occasion of Walton Ford: Calafia at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, the artists first exhibition with the gallery. It features six new watercolor paintings from the Calafia series, in which Ford depicts California through an amalgam of its myths, legends, and folklore. When the Spanish sailed up the western coast of North America, they named the land after the imaginary island, ruled by a warrior queen named Calafia, they had