Boynton Jack

American Abstract Expressionist artist known as a painter, printmaker and sculptor, he was known professionally as James until the early 1970s. He graduated from Lamar High School in 1945, and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (1949) and Master of Fine Arts (1955). He worked as an instructor at University of Houston from 1955–57, San Francisco Art Institute from 1960–62, and as a professor at University of St. Thomas (Texas) from 1969-1985. He began exhibiting paintings in 1950; has been included in numerous group exhibitions, nationally and internationally, since that time at museums, galleries and universities. Boynton was a key figure in the post-World War II Houston arts scene. According to a Houston Chronicle article written by Douglas Britt, Boynton garnered national attention in the 1950s and 1960s for his modernist, largely abstract paintings. He died on 5 April 2010 at age 82 in Houston, Texas. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less