Mark Horton, a native of Saginaw, Michigan, began taking studio art classes while practicing law, and in 1982 Horton quit a successful legal practice to paint full time. His urban scenes collect a variety of textures, a hodgepodge of signs, and unplanned juxtaposition of colors to suggest real connections between people and place.
"At first, my pictures are simple and abstract. The “reality” develops like everything else in the picture. As a result, painting for me is sort of a dance around the canvas while working on the whole. Sometimes I ponder the needed changes, more often I respond intuitively until the work looks like an actual place." -Mark Horton
Selected Collections:
Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Faegre and Benson, Law Firm, Minneapolis, Minnesota; First Bank, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Morris-Day Architects, Washington D.C.; Edward Kemper Design, New York City, New York; CSM, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Norwest Bank, Minneapolis, Minnesota; International Language School, Madison, Wisconsin; Northland Insurance Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota; North Memorial Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Luther Hospital, Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Dunn County Electric Co-Op, Durand, Wisconsin
City in Late Afternoon with Bus, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 50"
City with Theater and Green Sky, 12x12", and City with Theater and Red Building, 14 x 11"
Oil on Board
City in Blue with Narrow Yellow Sky, Oil on Canvas, 28 x 50"
City at Night with Green Yellow Lines, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 44"
Aerial View of City with Green Rooftops and Purple Streets, Oil on Canvas 50 x 40"
City at Dusk with Yellow Building, Oil on Canvas, 36 x 50"
City at Noon with Billboards, Oil on Canvas, 26 x 58"
City in White with Red Lines, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 50"
Rooftops at Dusk, 12 x 12", and Busy Street with Orange Marquee, 11 x 14"
Oil on Board
Aerial View of City with Green Rooftops and Orange Cars, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 50"
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