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| William Aiken Walker
American 1838 -1921
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| Born: |
Charleston, South Carolina
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| Died: |
Charleston, South Carolina
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| Active: |
Charleston, South Carolina
Baltimore, Maryland
Arden, North Carolina
New Orleans, Louisiana
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| Addresses: |
New Orleans, Louisiana 1876-1905
Charleston, South Carolina
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| Studied: |
Dusseldorf Academy 1860s
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| Exhibited: |
South Carolina Institute Fair 1850
Courtenay's Bookstore, Charleston 1858-1859
Baltimore 1870
Montgomery's, New Orleans 1876
Southern Art Union, New Orleans 1880
Boston Art Club 1881
Blessing's, New Orleans 1883, 1885
Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1903
Columbian Exposition 1893
Lilienthal's, New Orleans 1883
Seebold's, New Orleans 1884
Lilienthal's, New Orleans 1885-1886
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| Examples of Work: |
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Rosenberg Library, Galveston
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| Specialty: |
Painter
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| Style/School: |
Trompe l'Oeil
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| Subjects Known For: |
Genre
Portraits
Landscapes
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| Memberships: |
Wednesday Club, Baltimore 1865
Artist's Association of New Orleans 1890, 1893, 1897, 1899
Cup & Saucer Club
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Born in Charleston, Walker was a successful itinerant artist who spent much of his life traveling around the South between Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana, creating paintings of rural and urban genre scenes, figures and landscapes. Foll...
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William Aiken Walker was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1839 to an Irish Protestant father and a mother of South Carolina background. Walker would grow up southerner through and through. He completed his f...
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