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John Duckworth at Benjamin Art Gallery

John Duckworth was born in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania in 1950. His first exposure to the world of fine art came upon his admission to Girard College, a school for fatherless boys. After noticing that John spent an inordinate amount of time drawing while in study hall, the school enrolled him in Saturday classes at Philadelphia College of Art. Upon graduation from Girard, John continued his studies at PCA full time. These were turbulent times. Vietnam was raging, long hair and bellbottoms were "in," Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King had been assassinated. In the art world the Pop culture was reining supreme; Andy Warhol had been shot. Traditionalism, in all of its manifestations, was being challenged. This was the climate when John started his career as realist painter in an unreal world. His works of art exhibit a high degree of skill in planning and execution. John works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel and pencil or charcoal. His subject matter is wide ranging and he has completed a number of commissions over the years. Many of his paintings have been exhibited from coast to coast, the latest being at NBC in Washington, D.C. John Duckworth currently lives and paints with his wife, Chris, and four children in western Maryland.