Drawing, Jan. 2002 by Gordon Newton
Titled “the Old Church Window” in the artist’s hand, signed G. Newton, initialed GN, and dated in pen on the reverse. Mixed media drawing on green stenographer paper by Gordon Newton, 2002, unique artwork, approx 6″x8.5″ from a series of architectural works inspired by a church in the UK created 2000-2003. Exhibited at the Book Beat gallery in 2002 and 2003.
Gordon Newton (1948-2019) began taking art classes at Port Huron Community College. In 1969, he moved to Detroit to attend the Society of Arts and Crafts (now College for Creative Studies) and Wayne State University, both located in Detroit.
“Newton would become, in many ways, the poster child and beating heart of Detroit’s Cass Corridor arts movement — a do-it-yourself, proto-punk rock era of literature, music and visual art that drew the attention of the broader art world to the Motor City in a way likely not equaled before or since.” –Ryan Patrick Hooper for the Detroit Free Press
In 1971, Newton’s work was included in the inaugural exhibition at the Willis Gallery, a cooperative space run by artists working in the Cass Corridor, Detroit. His work has also been included in exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Detroit Institute of Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
$ 975.00
