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Martha Walter

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

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Martha Walter was a well-known Philadelphia-born Impressionist who specialized in light hearted, colorful beach scenes especially of Gloucester, Coney Island, Atlantic City and the French Coast.  She went to Girls High School, and from 1895 to 1898, studied at the Pennsylvania Museum & School of Industrial Art, now The University of the Arts College of Art and Design.  Her recognitions at the school included the following:

1895/96: Received Certificate A in Industrial Drawing.  Received honorable mention for the Henry Perry Leland Prize given by Mrs. John Harrison for work in Pen and Ink; $20 second prize for best set of drawings in the Course of Industrial Drawing.

1896/97: Received John T. Morris Prize of $10.00 for drawing of Details of the Human Figure; Jacob H. Weil Prize of an outfit of Oleo Water-Colors for best sketch in water-colors from Life.

1897/98: Honorable mention for the Mrs. George K. Crozer Prize offered for the best work i   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 13939 characters.]  Artist bio

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art for sale: Martha Walter 2   
Corner of the Detention Room, Ellis Island
Martha Walter
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Title:  Corner of the Detention Room, Ellis Island
Type:  Painting
Medium:  Oil
Ground:  Canvas
Style:  American Impressionist
Subject:  Figure/Portrait/Genre/Nude
Signature:  Lower Left
Year Created:  c.1922
Size:  14.00" x 18.00"

Description:  This artwork is part of a series of thirty-six works by Walter which detailed images of immigrants at Ellis Island, New York in the 1920s. The paintings were exhibited in 1922 in the Galerie George in Paris. The series subsequently appeared in 1923 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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