The United Gas Pipe Line Company Collection

UGPL 0098 Woodford, Don, Untitled squares, acrylic on paper, 13” x 18¼,” 1974 illus: p 42

Don Woodford (1941- )

Written in 1976 for the catalog and reproduced as printed, with spelling corrected. Not current.

The subtle graduations of color and texture of old tiled surfaces is apparent in this intricately conceived work of Don Woodford.

Woodford has had shows in Midwest and West Coast museums and galleries since 1963. Born in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1941, Woodford studied at Cornell College in Iowa before receiving an MA in Art at Illinois State University in 1964 and an MFA at the University of Wisconsin in 1965.

In 1963 he was the recipient of the Arts and Riverwoods Prize at the Chicago Art Institute; he also won the Jurors’ Award at the Sixth National Exhibition of American Drawing, Erie Art Center, Pennsylvania, in 1966; and First Prize in the California Artists Exhibition at the Riverside Art Center Museum.

His major group shows have been at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Nelson-Atkins Gallery, Kansas City; Seattle Art Museum; and he has had one-man shows in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Reed College, Cornell College and Coe College, Iowa; Western Illinois University; and Davenport, Iowa Municipal Art Gallery. His work is in the collections of the American Embassy, Tripoli; Western Illinois University; Cedar Rapids Art Center; and Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

From The Art Collection of United Gas Pipe Line Company (Houston, 1976), curated by Susan Rush.