1. Jonathan Talbot, was born on November 14,1939 and is an American collage artist, painter, and printmaker.
15 Facts About Jonathan Talbot
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Jonathan Talbot is the creator of an innovative collage technique that eliminates liquid adhesives from the collage assembly process.
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Jonathan Talbot's technique is the subject of his book, Collage: A New Approach.
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Jonathan Talbot's artwork has represented the United States in exhibitions sponsored by the US State Department as well as by the Smithsonian Institution.
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Jonathan Talbot's works are included in permanent museum collections in United States, Canada, and Europe.
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Jonathan Talbot is best known for his collages and multi-dimensional collage-constructions, as well as, for his oils, watercolors, and etchings.
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Jonathan Talbot is the son of artist, Helen Jonathan Talbot, who exhibited in New York in the early 1930s, and he was raised on a family farm in upstate New York in Putnam County.
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Shortly thereafter Jonathan Talbot was enrolled in the Hessian Hills School founded by Elizabeth Moos, a notably progressive school in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, where the educational focus was on the arts.
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Jonathan Talbot spent many summers during the 1950s living in the village of Menemsha on Martha's Vineyard, an island which at that time, was the summer home of many artists and members of the creative arts.
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Jonathan Talbot recorded two albums as leader of the New York Electric String Ensemble, one for ESP-Disk.
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Jonathan Talbot belonged to the San Francisco Artists Cooperative, which was a branch of the Art Students League of San Francisco and sold his works on street corners near Fisherman's Wharf.
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Between 1975 and 1981 Jonathan Talbot sold etchings through numerous galleries around the United States, as well.
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About this time Jonathan Talbot met the veteran collage artist, Roderick Slater, who encouraged him to begin experimenting with the medium of collage.
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Since 1998 Jonathan Talbot's works have been the subject of solo museum exhibitions on both the east and west coasts of the United States and he lectures and teaches widely in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
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Jonathan Talbot collaborated with Robin Colodzin as they created The Arts Map, an electronic, international reference tool that enabled viewers to obtain detailed information about many types of artists and related institutions and businesses by their location as well as by name and type.