Item Description
Born in San Diego, California, artist Ron Wing (1929-2015) graduated from the Norwich Free Academy in 1948 with a Fine Arts diploma, and was awarded a scholarship to Pratt Art Institute in Brooklyn, from which he graduated in 1954. Ron lived and worked as a cartoonist and illustrator in New York City for most of the 50’s. As a commercial artist, his work was published in such magazines as Business Week, Argosy, Pageant, Coronet, Reader’s Digest and The
Saturday Evening Post. A popular illustrator of children’s books for Bantam Books including many of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series, he also was the cartoonist for Larry Wilde’s “Joke Books.”
He has exhibited his art at the National Academy in New York and in galleries in New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
In the early 1960’s, Ron moved to Benton, Pennsylvania where he established a studio in an 18th century mill and made painting his life. His love of nature, the mystery of life and death, and other allegorical themes have been captured in the media of oil, watercolor, pastel, pencil, charcoal and etchings. He adopted the motto of Voltaire, “Look to your own backyard,” painting the natural environment surrounding the mill.
An exhibition of his work, Ron Wing: Life's Landscape, will be on view from
November 17, 2016 at the Slater Memorial Museum, culminating with a live auction of his work in pastel and oil on
December 3.
For more information about the Slater Museum, visit www.slatermuseum.org
Item Special Note
This is an original piece of art by Ron Wing, a professional artist whose career spanned several decades and whose work is represented in both museums and private collections.
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