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William Thon

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William Thon (1906 - 2000) was active/lived in Maine, New York / Italy.  William Thon is known for Highly abstract painting, marine, figure and landscape.

William Thon was an American artist noted for highly abstracted landscape paintings.  He debuted as a professional artist in 1939 at the Corcoran Gallery Biennial* exhibition.  He was born in New York City in 1906, and spent his childhood summers camping on Staten Island. He also developed a great love of travel, and in 1933 made an eight-month voyage to the Cocos Islands in the Pacific.

He joined the Navy during World War II, and shortly after the war won the Prix de Rome*, a fellowship in Rome to the American Academy,* which he later served as trustee. Recognition for him continued with his participation in the 1942 "Artists for Victory" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art*, and in 1944, Midtown Galleries in New York held his first one-person show. This gallery then continued to be his representative throughout his career.  He had subsequent solo exhibitions at Smith College Art Museum, Fort Wayne Museum and Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine.  He   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4054 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for William Thon


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art MediaArt Style
  • Impressionism Before 1940
  • Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
  • American Scene
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Seascapes, Seasides
  • Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Europe
  • Italy
Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
  • Salmagundi Club, New York City
  • Salons of America
Art School
  • American Academy, Rome, Student
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize, National Academy of Design
  • Benjamin Altman Prize, National Academy of Design
  • Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize, National Academy of Design
  • Ogden Pleissner Memorial Prize
  • Prix de Rome Prize
  • Samuel Finley Breese Morse Medal, National Academy
  • William A. Paton Prize
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Sara Roby Foundation
Added Description
  • Miniature Specialty
  • Self Taught, Autodidact
Exhibition of Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • Salmagundi Club, New York City-
  • Salons of America-
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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