David Newton

Newton's work has been exhibited around the world, including at The Museum of the City of New York; The Huan Tie Art Museum in Beijing, China; The Rhode Island School of Design Museum and The Brown University David Winton Bell Gallery in Providence, RI.; and The Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC. Newton's work is in numerous public and private collections in the US and Europe, including The Museum of the City of New York, Guilford College Art Gallery, and The Weatherspoon Art Museum. A memorial retrospective of his work, "Onward: The Creative Legacy of David Newton", opened in March 2012, at the Guilford College Art Gallery in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he was a noted professor of sculpture and drawing who taught and mentored many young artists.

Newton began studying painting and drawing in the 1970s with Scott Halem (who was a former student of artist Frank Herbert Mason) in San Francisco. Newton moved to New York City in 1978 to study painting and drawing in the studio of Frank Herbert Mason at the Art Students League of New York. Newton met his future wife, Suzanne McBride Newton, when she modeled for a painting in the Mason class at The League. In addition to The Art Students League of New York, Newton also studied art at Pratt Graphics Center, Rhode Island School of Design, and Bard College (Masters of Fine Arts/MFA). Newton had a lifelong desire to learn new techniques and skills to add to his artwork, be it drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpting or blacksmithing and welding. To support himself, he worked as a bartender at the Algonquin Hotel, an exhibition and design preparator at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and an art teacher in a high school and several colleges, including Guilford College (where he was a tenured professor of art.) All along he diligently worked at making, exhibiting, and selling his paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures.

David Christopher Newton (December 1953 – April 2011) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, draftsman, and college art teacher. Newton was born in 1953 in Oakland, California. He lived and worked in California, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and North Carolina with his wife Suzanne McBride Newton (who is a Yoga instructor and former modern dancer). He died in 2011 after battling colon and liver cancer.