John Havens Thornton

Two Figures
1964 Oil on Canvas
72 x 66 inches

Painting a Life

From his first body of paintings in the early 1960’s, John Thornton has considered and employed the formal aesthetic concerns of color, line, form, space, and surface. But, over the course of his career to the present day, he has sought equally to create abstract art in which the viewer can perceive something of the artist’s personality. It is this quality that has always attracted and held Thornton’s attention to certain artist’s work, and one he deems essential for his own.

– David B. Boyce