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Groundbreaking modern artist Walter Askin had his first one-person show in the 1950s. Since then, he's painted, sculpted, written, taught...and continues to ...

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An interview of Walter Askin conducted 1992 March 4-6, by Paul J. Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art.

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Selected Institutional Collections for Walter Askin: Achenbach Collection: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Arizona State University Art Museum Brown University California National Watercolor Society California State Universities, Long Beach, Los Angeles, San Diego, Stanislaus Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin Columbia College, Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago Fine Arts Academy, New Delhi, India Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota George Boone Sculpture Garden, Pasadena, CA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles Hawaiian State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece Henry Moore Estate Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport Connecticut The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI Kohler Company, Kohler, WI Long Beach Museum of Art Los Angeles County Museum of Art Madison Art Center, WI Musee be Petit Format, Belgium Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Museum of  Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. National Institute of Design, Bhopal, Ahmedabad, India National Trust, England National Watercolor Society The New York Public Library Norton Simon Museum https://www.nortonsimon.org/art/viewer/P.2004.03.3 Oakland Art Museum Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio Oxford Museum of Modern Art, England Phoenix Art Museum Pomona College Portland Art Museum Rio Hondo College San Francisco Museum of Art State of California Tate Gallery, London, England University of Alabama University of California, Berkeley University of Dallas University of Southern California University of Iowa University of New Mexico University of Maine Museum of Art Utah Museum of Fine Arts Valley National Bank, Phoenix, AZ White House Millennium Council, Washington, D.C. William Allen White Library, Emporia State University, Kansas Whitney Museum, New York Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts Zentralinstitute fur Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany

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Public Art Projects: City of Palm Desert El Paseo Art in Public Places Commission - two large-scale flame-cut steel polyurethane coated sculptures. Salt Lake City, Utah, Winter Olympics Portfolio Project – twelve lithographs celebrating competitive events. Los Angeles Gold Line Metro Project – two posters on all Metropolitan Los Angeles County trains and buses celebrating the Gold Line extension through Pasadena. Visual Arts Research Institute, Arizona State University Project – two folios with collaborative lithography, photography, and hand-set letterpress type. Arkansas Tech University Jazz Program – lithograph depicting jazz musicians to support university jazz program. California State University, Los Angeles Summer Olympics Commission – folio of images created in connection with Olympic program events on campus. “Of Time and Place” Millennium Project – national invitational publication project sponsored by the American Print Alliance and Blue Sky Press with an extensive national exhibition program. “A Dance of Death” Invitational Ecological Collaborative  Cabbagehead Press Portfolio Project – Pete Seager, Jacques Cousteau and 21 artists nationally. Arts Industry Program, John Michael Kohler Art Center and the Kohler Factory, Sheboygan, Wisconsin – enameled, large-scale cast iron totems for a variety of sites in Southern California. Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque – collaborative images created during two invitational residencies.

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“You’ve got to take a chance on doing something,” says iconic modern artist Walter Askin. Walter’s most recent sculpture, The... read more

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Metro Art Highlights: Walter Askin’s “Pasadena” (2003), Through the Eyes of Artists.

Grab a horn and let’s hear you “heigh-ho!” as you join the piping procession parading through Pasadena. These wholesome and high-spirited figures boast a buoyant bacchanal that will march right into your heart and dismantle any melancholy that might mire you woe by woe by woe.  

Askin asserts, “…the real joy as an artist is to create work filled with delight, work that is more calm, more serene, more alive, more playful, more energized, more focused, more directed and more life filled for the time that we’re here.”

This particular artwork was awarded a Silver Medal from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators.

Pick up the pace, peppy people. And follow the trail of confetti and carefree carousing.

Destination: Diligent fiddledeedee dilly-dallying.