Martha Walter (1875 - 1976)
Martha Walter was active/lived in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania / France. Martha Walter is known for portrait, beach-child-park and landscape painting.

Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 16" x 20"
Frame Size: 23" x 27"
Condition: Great, No Blemishes
Style: Impressionist
Circa: 1950s

Influenced by the French impressionists during her travels abroad, Martha Walter did canvases of light-hearted genre scenes and landscapes spontaneously executed with a palette of vivid colors. Born in Philadelphia, she enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she studied under William Merritt Chase. At his insistence, she entered a number of student competitions and eventually won a prestigious Cresson traveling scholarship in 1908. This award enabled her to travel throughout Europe, where she continued her art education at the Grande Chaumiere and the Academie Julien in Paris.

Soon disenchanted with the academicism of the Parisian schools, Walter set up her own studio and began producing plein-air paintings. At the outbreak of World War I, she returned to the United States and took up painting at various East Coast resorts such as Coney Island and Gloucester. In her beach scenes of this period, colorful bathing suits, gowns, and umbrellas punctuate the tranquil, pastel surfaces. Her expertise in the treatment of light and shadow is evident in her depictions of nursemaids, mothers, and children. In 1922, Walter spent some months painting the hundreds of immigrants kept in the detention hall at Ellis Island. The dreadful, crowded conditions inspired a group of paintings which were exhibited that year in the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris. An exhibition at the Art Club of Chicago in 1941 featured a group of watercolor paintings inspired by the artist's travels through Spain and North Africa. These works were intensely colored visions of such subjects as Algerian street scenes, mosques, and Spanish fisherman.

Walter worked well into her nineties, continuing to paint beaches, gardens, and marketplaces. Before her death in 1976, she had exhibited widely and her works were included in major national and international private and public collections.



PROVENANCE
Private Collection from Connecticut

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