Bill Walton, a commercial printmaker by trade and later an instructor at Moore College of Art and Design (1974-90), was often more interested in the materials used for printmaking—wood, lead, steel—than in the finished product. His studio contained an exhibition area so he could display his work in progress in order to judge whether or not it was finished, a crucial part of his studio practice. At the time of his death in 2010, Walton’s studio was a small miracle of order. Tools and materials were arranged as carefully as works of art. Indeed it was not always simple to tell the tools from the work, to judge whether an artful arrangement of screws and bolts was waiting to be used or to be admired. This exhibition re-creates the unique environment of the minimalist artist, a key figure in the Philadelphia art community for nearly 50 years.
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