Martha Walter
Painting, Visual Artist
1875 – 1976
Who was Martha Walter?
Martha Walter was an American impressionist painter.
Walter was a Philadelphia native. She studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, where she was taught by William Merritt Chase. She won the school's Toppan Prize and Cresson Traveling Scholarship. In 1909 also she won the school's Mary Smith Prize for the best painting by a resident female artist. On her scholarship she traveled to Spain Italy, the Netherlands and France. In France she received tuition from Rene Menard and Lucien Simon at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
She went on to teach art at Chase's New York School of Art.
Her estate was purchased in the late 1960s by the David David Gallery of Philadelphia.
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- Born
- Mar 19, 1875
Philadelphia - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Académie Julian
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- Lived in
- Philadelphia
- Died
- Jan 1, 1976
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on July 23, 2013
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