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Martha Walter"Still Life with Rose Bouquets" Impressionist Oil of Canvasboard Painting FramedEarly 20th Century
Early 20th Century
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A whimsical depiction by Martha Walter of an interior morning scene of white, pink, and red roses arrangement in glass and ceramic vases on top of a table with a red mantel, and a bouquet of pink roses next to it with the use of bold colors and strong contrasts make Walter's work so striking and captivating. In the background is the wall room of a warm green tone reflecting all the shadows and a soft and subtle manner. The flowers are executed with bold petals and exciting colors and this depiction is a wonderful scene done in her home. As an acclaimed American Impressionist painter and one of the premier female artists to be recognized within the fine arts community of the time, she was known for her bright plein-air beach scenes and domestic portraits. Martha Walter studied under William Merritt Chase and was greatly influenced by the then-established French Impressionists Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, and Eugène Boudin. Walter's works took on a looser style; she also used black paint, a color often excluded by other Impressionists. The painting is on canvasboard with the Martha Walter Estate stamp on the reverse, and it comes housed in an antiqued champagne color with a black border Plein Air style wood frame with hanging wire on verso ready to be displayed.
Art measures 20 x 24 inches
Frame measures 27 x 31 inches
Martha Walter was born on March 19, 1875 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Walter is a well-known American Impressionist painter who benefitted from an excellent arts education. She attended Girls High School from 1895 to 1898, Walter studied at the Pennsylvania Museum & School of Industrial Art, now The University of the Arts College of Art and Design. Then she enrolled with William Merritt Chase at his summer school in Shinnecock, Long Island, followed by enrolling at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts studying under Chase’s wing. Showing on Walter's early work a very strong influence of Chase, translated in a use of rich saturated colors, combined with a very successful application of black paint. Since black was a pigment extraordinarily difficult to master and often omitted in the general course of American Impressionism. She was also one of the few American Impressionists who used black in her palette.
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts is where she was awarded the school's Toppan Prize and in 1903 she won a two-year traveling Cresson Scholarship that gave her the opportunity to go to France, where she attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière under the tuition from Rene Menard and Lucien Simon and the Académie Julian in Paris, she also visited, Spain, Italy, and Holland. In 1909 Walter also won the school’s Mary Smith Prize from the Academy for the best painting by a resident female artist of portrait she had painted in Europe. In 1922 she was given a solo show at the Galerie Georges Petit. Seeking to explore outside of the academic structure, she established a private studio in the Rue de Bagneaux along with several other American women artists. But at the outbreak of World War I, she returned to the United States and set up a studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She began painting charming beach scenes in New York and Massachusetts; the fishing village of Gloucester, Coney Island, Atlantic City, and from along the French Coast provided an ideal subject for her with its bright colors and scenes of cheerful children, which have brought her national acclaim.
Walter is also known for her depictions at Ellis Island of the immigrants as they arrived in their ethnic costumes from other countries, poor children in rural Tennessee, and later, orientalist compositions of market scenes from her travels in North African cities. Though influenced by the artists of both the European and American art worlds, it could be said that she developed a unique painting style. Her training with Chase is evident in the saturated colors and plein-air subject matter in her early Impressionist work with bold dashing brush strokes in conjunction with total color control and well-organized composition. Her painting captured the animation of the city and the light and color of seashore scenes.
Walter lived a charmed life keeping addresses in New York City, suburban Philadelphia, and Gloucester while continuing to visit Paris frequently traveling abroad, capturing in oil and watercolor a wealth of landscapes and cultures across the globe. Her outdoor scenes, both of city and country life, were vividly colored and somewhat abstracted. The palette changed according to the setting, but Walter’s strong, well-chosen colors were continually alluring. Her loose rendering of form gives the work an abstract quality, and the quick brushstrokes reinforce the sense of fun and vitality. Eventually, she took up a teaching position at the New York School of Art, run by her old teacher William Merritt Chase. After 1945, Martha spent most of her time in Huntingdon Valley and Glenside, Pennsylvania, where she enjoyed painting flowers from her garden.
Walter’s works can be found in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Cheekwood Museum in Tennessee, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, in France the Terra Museum at Giverny and the Musee d' Orsay in Paris, and the Musee Du Luxembourg, among others. She never married, and in her later years, she preferred not to be disturbed by galleries and museums. Although well advanced in years, Martha Walter lived to the age of one hundred and one and continued to paint until a few years before she died in January, 1976 in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
PROVENANCE: Martha Walter Estate with the Estate stamp on verso, David David Art Gallery Philadelphia; Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; Private Collection New York City; Lilac Gallery Collection. The piece will be stamped from Lilac Gallery on its verso.
- Creator:Martha Walter (1875-1976, American)
- Creation Year:Early 20th Century
- Dimensions:Height: 31 in (78.74 cm)Width: 27 in (68.58 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Condition:The painting and its frame are in excellent condition with some ordinary wear from age.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
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Martha Walter
Walter was born in Philadelphia in 1875. She enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she studied under William Merritt Chase, who became her primary mentor. At his insistence, she entered a number of Academy 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 Julien in Paris. Soon disenchanted with the academicism of the Parisian schools, Walter set out on her own and began producing plein-air paintings in the manner of the French Impressionists. At the outbreak of World War I, she returned to the United States and took up painting at various East coast beach resorts such as Coney Island and Gloucester. In her beach scenes of this period, colorful bathing suits, gowns and umbrellas punctuate a tranquil, pastel surface. Her expertise in the treatment of light and shadow is evident in her depictions of these settings at various times of day.
In 1922, she spent some months painting the thousands of immigrants kept in the detention hall at Ellis Island. The dreadful, crowded conditions inspired a group of paintings that were exhibited that year in the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris. One was selected for the permanent collection of the Musée de Luxembourg. 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 fishermen.
Walter worked well into her nineties, continuing to paint portraits of women and children, beach scenes, gardens and marketplaces. Before her death in 1976, she had exhibited widely, and her works are included in major national and international private and public collections. Hammer Galleries had several exhibitions of her work during her lifetime, the last taking place in 1975 when the artist was one hundred years old.
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