William Thon

William Thon (1906 – December 6, 2000) was an American painter.

Thon was born in New York City in 1906. He spent his childhood summers camping on Staten Island. He joined the Navy during World War II, and tersely after the skirmish won the Rome Prize, a fellowship to the American Academy in Rome. He future became a trustee of the Academy. In 1951, Thon customary a ascend from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He taught painting at Ohio University, and he painted aspects of the Apollo Space Program for the NASA Fine Arts Program.

William Thon had no formal art training apart from 30 days at the Art Students League. He discovered his individual style through proceedings and error. He began painting in oil in a fairly possible mode, but during his stay at the American Academy in Rome he discovered watercolor as a deafening medium and began to loosen his style some. His act out became more abstract, although the sources were nevertheless recognizable. Perhaps the major breakthrough for his painting came similar to the discovery of an forlorn quarry close his home in Maine. Here he painted spidery trees later than rectilinear slabs of granite interspersed, such as in Midnight Quarry. While still based in nature, these were by far-off the most abstract of his paintings for that reason far.

Thon died in Port Clyde, Maine on December 6, 2000.

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