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1843 Boston, Massachusetts - 1929 Cornish, New Hampshire. Known for: Portrait, figure, landscape and mural painting.
Henry Oliver Walker, a Boston-born artist of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts tradition, earned a distinguished reputation as a portrait and mural painter. His murals, commissioned for numerous public... Read full biography
Henry Oliver Walker, a Boston-born artist of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts tradition, earned a distinguished reputation as a portrait and mural painter. His murals, commissioned for numerous public buildings, were allegorical. Many of these frescos had figures infused with idealism and sensual virtue.... Read full biography
Henry Oliver Walker, a Boston-born artist of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts tradition, earned a distinguished reputation as a portrait and mural painter. His murals, commissioned for numerous public buildings, were allegorical. Many of these frescos had figures infused with idealism and sensual virtue. As a child, Walker attended school near Beacon Hill in Boston. He did not begin his art career until he was age 36 because he had done secretarial work in New York at the offices of Day, Dana & Company... Read full biography
Henry Oliver Walker, a Boston-born artist of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts tradition, earned a distinguished reputation as a portrait and mural painter. His murals, commissioned for numerous public buildings, were allegorical. Many of these frescos had figures infused with idealism and sensual virtue. As a child, Walker attended school near Beacon Hill in Boston. He did not begin his art career until he was age 36 because he had done secretarial work in New York at the offices of Day, Dana & Company to support a sister who needed financial help. However, when she died young and his parents did not need help, he declined an offer to become private secretary for a Mr. Rogers, who was a partner of J.P. Morgan, and followed his dream of becoming an... Read full biography
Henry Oliver Walker, a Boston-born artist of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts tradition, earned a distinguished reputation as a portrait and mural painter. His murals, commissioned for numerous public buildings, were allegorical. Many of these frescos had figures infused with idealism and sensual virtue. As a child, Walker attended school near Beacon Hill in Boston. He did not begin his art career until he was age 36 because he had done secretarial work in New York at the offices of Day, Dana & Company to support a sister who needed financial help. However, when she died young and his parents did not need help, he declined an offer to become private secretary for a Mr. Rogers, who was a partner of J.P. Morgan, and followed his dream of becoming an artist. In the late 1870s, he took his money and went to Paris where he became a student of Leon Bonnat.&nbs... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesBeyond a Gilded Cage: Recollections of Laura Marquand Walker
2005Walker, Laura Marquand; Fern K. Meyers (Editor)223 pages (color)Cornish Art of the Past Century: Art for Art's Sake
2001Gilbert-Smith, Alma24 pages (color)A Place of Beauty: The Artists and Gardens of the Cornish Colony
2000
(Exhibition catalog)Gilbert, Alma; Judith Tankard24 pages (color)Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999Editor, Smith College Museum307 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesThe Cornish Colony: At the Dawn of the New Century
1999Gilbert-Smith, Alma24 pages (color)The Cornish Colony: One Hundred Year Celebration Exhibit
1998
(Exhibition catalog)Gilbert, Alma; James Atkinson52 pagesFootprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire
1996Colby, Virginia Reed; James B. Atkinson526 pagesAmerican Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996Shipp, Steve159 pagesRevisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
1993
(Exhibition catalog)Carr, Carolyn K408 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings622 pagesThe Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)1,117 pagesAmerican Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface430 pages (color)Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990Gerdts, William H421 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings612 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesA Circle of Friends Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin
1985
(Exhibition catalog)New Hampshire, U of138 pages (color)American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45
1985Spasky, Natalie671 pagesThe Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III325 pages (color)Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
1978Fink, Lois Marie62 pages (color)American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977Brown, Milton W631 pages (color)Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910
1977
(Exhibition catalog)Hills, Patricia194 pages (color)Recent Ideals of Americn Art
1977Sheldon, George William176 pagesAcademy The Academic Tradition in American Art
1975
(Exhibition catalog)Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor272 pagesExhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
1973
(Exhibition catalog)Naylor, Maria1,075 pagesBiographical Sketches of American Artists
1972Earle, Helen L370 pagesHistory of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954Clark, Eliot296 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pagesA History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932Hartmann, Sadekichi363 pagesCommemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
1925
(Exhibition catalog)National Academy of Design160 pagesMural Painting in America
1913Blashfield, Edwin Howland312 pagesThe National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Inst, Bulletin 70
1909Rathbun, Richard140 pagesOfficial Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
1904
(Exhibition catalog)Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor)281 pagesHandbook of the New Library of Congress in Washington
1897Small, Herbert (compiler)128 pagesThe Art Gallery Illustrated World's Columbian Exposition
1893Kurtz, Charles (editor)383 pages