Walter Askin
Walter Askin studied art at the University of California, Berkeley where he received his BA and MA degrees and was named Calmerton Scholar in Art. He also studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and of Fine Art, Oxford University, England.
He has exhibited his paintings internationally from museums and galleries in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea to those in India, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Denmark, Mexico, Canada and Brazil as well as those in the United States.
He had his first one-person show at the M.H. De Young Museum in San Francisco followed by one-person shows at the Kunstlerhaus in Vienna, the Hellenic American Union in Athens, Greece, The Pasadena, Santa Barbara and La Jolla Museums of Art, California Institute of Technology, California State University Long Beach, Scripps College, the University of California, Berkeley, the Ericson Gallery in New York, the Lizardi/Harp Galleries in Pasadena and Los Angeles, and the Hank Baum Gallery in San Francisco among others.
His works are in collections worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Henry Moore Estate, the National Gallery of Art in Washington,D.C., the National Trust in Great Britain, the University of California, Los Angeles, the Hawaiian State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the Fine Arts Academy in New Delhi, India, and the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.
He has received over 50 awards for his work including the Senator Phelan Award twice. He received grants from the Fine Arts and Humanities Branch of the U.S. Office of Education and has been an artist-in-residence at the Huntington Hartford Foundation, the University of New Mexico, Tamarind Institute, the Ragdale Foundation, the Hambidge Center, the Vermont Studio Colony, the Ossabaw Island Foundation, Yosemite National Park, the Borchard Foundation in France, Kelpra Studio in London, and the University of Kansas.
He has been chair of the Arts Advisory Committee, the Studio Art Advanced Placement Development Committee and a member of the Academic Council of the College Board; chair of the Art Committees of the Commission on Presidential Scholars and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. He also served as a member of the Board of Governors for Baxter Art Gallery at California Institute of Technology, artists’ representative to the Graphics Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Pasadena Art Museum. He is Professor Emeritus of California State University, Los Angeles where he received the Outstanding Professor Award and continues work as director of the Visual Humor Project. He was Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University, an assistant curator at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, and First Vice President of the National Watercolor Society.
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