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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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Artist Profile |
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BIOGRAPHY: |
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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