John N. Colt: nature up-close

Description

Nature viewed up-close provided impetus and vision for nearly five decades of John Nicholson Colt’s (1925-1998) artistic career. Small- and large-scale renderings of micro habitats and creatures are whimsically transformed in a variety of media by one of Wisconsin’s artistic giants of modernist expression. Twenty interpretations of Colt’s imaginative natural world were gifts to the Cedarburg Art Museum Collection by Ruth Kjaer and the Kohler Foundation, Inc.