Author: Boynton, James W.; James Boynton; Jack Boynton (1928-2010)
Title: And Don't Come Back (Packaged Horizon VI) [Texas Barbed Wire] Original Lithograph
Description: Tamarind: Albuquerque, NM. 1967. Original color lithograph. 18.75 x 18.75 inches. One of 20 signed and numbered impressions. Reference Tamarind 2082. blindstamps of Tamarind and printer James W. Boynton 'James Boynton', 'Jack Boynton': A widely recognized contemporary American painter and printmaker, James Boynton received a BFA in (1949) and MFA in (1955) at the Texas Christian University. Boynton was included as one of seventeen artists who represented the USA in the Brussels World Fair in 1957/8. By the end of the decade his original lithographs and paintings were being exhibited from New York to San Francisco. In 1967 he received the Artist Fellowship from Tamarind Lithographic Workshop in Los Angeles, California. He also completed Time and Space murals for the Educational Section, Dallas Museum of Art in 1984; which now hang at the Texas Tech University. James Wesley Boynton has been recognized as a major contemporary surrealist artist with overseas exhibitions of his art in London, Brussels and Paris. Like Magritte, Boynton uses shape and form to both contradict the senses and to disrupt our relationship to space and time. And, like the greatest surrealist masters, his art is clearly thought provoking. Day and Night Ribon is a splendid example of James Boynton's art, where he uses both space and symbol to the highest level. He taught drawing and painting at the University of St Thomas, Houston from 1969-1985; University of Houston from 1955-1957; San Francisco Art Institute. 1960-1962 and been a visiting artist at Northwood Institute, Dallas, 1968-1969; Anderson Ranch, Aspen Co; and the University of NM, Summer 1963. He has also been featured in numerous publications including three major (JB) books/catalogs. James Boynton was known professionally as James until the early 1970's when he started signing as Jack Boynton. Jack Boynton's art is included in many museums; such as the Prestigious Museum of Modern Art in New York. MOMA has assembled one of the largest collections of James Boynton's original lithographs and the museum lists thirty-nine of his lithographs in its collection. His art can also be found at the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, New York City, the Museum of fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art; Amon Carter Museum, Ft Worth; Museum of New Orleans; Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Albuquerque and many others. Provenance, Suzy Locke. .

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