wash day
Type:Painting
Year:1875
Size:6.25" x 12.25"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
a stunning example in a period frame
William Aiken Walker ART FOR SALE
1838 Charleston, South Carolina - 1921 Charleston, South Carolina. Known for: Cotton kingdom genre and landscape painting, trompe l'oeil.
A genre painter, William Aiken Walker, is primarily known for his expressions of plantations, cotton fields, African Americans, and dock scenes. The son of a prominent cotton agent, he was a true... Read full biography
A genre painter, William Aiken Walker, is primarily known for his expressions of plantations, cotton fields, African Americans, and dock scenes. The son of a prominent cotton agent, he was a true Southerner, born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1838. Walker completed his first painting at twelve... Read full biography
A genre painter, William Aiken Walker, is primarily known for his expressions of plantations, cotton fields, African Americans, and dock scenes. The son of a prominent cotton agent, he was a true Southerner, born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1838. Walker completed his first painting at twelve and painted until his death in 1921. Although he studied in Dusseldorf sometime during the 1860s, he was primarily self-taught. A social and friendly man, Walker often entertained friends with stories... Read full biography
A genre painter, William Aiken Walker, is primarily known for his expressions of plantations, cotton fields, African Americans, and dock scenes. The son of a prominent cotton agent, he was a true Southerner, born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1838. Walker completed his first painting at twelve and painted until his death in 1921. Although he studied in Dusseldorf sometime during the 1860s, he was primarily self-taught. A social and friendly man, Walker often entertained friends with stories of his southern travels, which included Florida, Galveston, Texas, and the Carolinas. It is thought that he was somewhat inspired by European artistic subjects and styles, and also made at least one trip to that continent. Currier and Ives published... Read full biography
A genre painter, William Aiken Walker, is primarily known for his expressions of plantations, cotton fields, African Americans, and dock scenes. The son of a prominent cotton agent, he was a true Southerner, born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1838. Walker completed his first painting at twelve and painted until his death in 1921. Although he studied in Dusseldorf sometime during the 1860s, he was primarily self-taught. A social and friendly man, Walker often entertained friends with stories of his southern travels, which included Florida, Galveston, Texas, and the Carolinas. It is thought that he was somewhat inspired by European artistic subjects and styles, and also made at least one trip to that continent. Currier and Ives published several of his color lithographs in 1884; most notably "Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi" and "The Levee, New Orleans," and... Read full biography
William Aiken Walker - Art for Sale (12 available)
Cotton Baler
Type:Painting
Size:8.00" x 4.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Pair of Cotton Pickers
Type:Painting
Year:1880's
Size:8.50" x 4.50"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
A pair as found with original Daisy Frames
The Cotton Picker
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1890
Size:12.00" x 6.50"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Plantation in the Piedmont of Carolina
Type:Painting
Size:12.00" x 20.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Male & Female Cotton PIckers
Type:Painting
Size:8.50" x 4.50"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Southern Cabin
Type:Painting
Size:6.00" x 12.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
A beautiful example with color and southern trees more figures and animals than usual
Female Cotton Picjer with Oranges
Type:Painting
Year:1880
Size:8.00" x 4.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Little Boy Fishing
Type:Painting
Size:8.75" x 5.50" x 0.16"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Unusual compostion for Walker
southern cabib
Type:Painting
Year:1890-1900
Size:6.00" x 12.00" x 0.16"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
a beautiful cabin view with provenance :Herman Schtinder, Charleston, SC , Mr. & Mrs. P Roussel Norman, New Orleans , Lousiana . New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA. , Sotheby Parle Bernet , April 29 1976 lot 67, A collection from 5th Ave NY
Man on Horsebacl
Type:Painting
Year:1880's
Size:9.25" x 12.25" x 0.16"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Unusual subject
Cotton Picker
Type:Painting
Size:12.00" x 6.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left