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Featured Work
Chinese Drugstore
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John WinklerPrint (INTERIOR)
Orange County Courthouse
About the Artwork
This etching, measuring approximately 15 x 10 inches, can be seen in the fourth floor south hallway.
About the Artist
John Winkler
John William Joseph Winkler was born into a strict conventional family in Austria but escaped as a teen to the Wild West of American and never turned back. He studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute (later the San Francisco Institute of Art) and spent most of the rest of his life in California although he worked and exhibited in Europe for eight years. He produced over 300 etching plates during his lifetime, hundreds of drawings, jewelry pieces and 200 hand carved and decorated wood boxes.
Did you know?
Hughlette "Tex" Wheeler left Christmas, FL to became one of the most renowned equine sculptors in the early 20th Century with public sculptures of Sea Buisquit and of Will Roger's Horse. He died back in Christmas, FL.
Discover Art in Central Florida!
For those who have eyes to see, there are hundreds of works of art around them.
This web site provides some information on many of those works of art that can
be regularly viewed in Orange County by any member of the public without an
admission fee. They are outside in public view, or located in an interior area
that is normally open to the public.
Look around this web site and find something that interests you. Then go see it
in person. The information you find here will add to the pleasure of exploring
public art in Central Florida.
If, in your travels around Orange County, you come across some public art that
is not listed here, please let us know so we can add it. If you are aware of
additional information about art or artist that is included here, again, please
let us know. Together we can make this an incredible resource for people seeking
to spice up their life through exploring art.