This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following biography is from the artist's son, Terry Newman:
Walter Andrews was born in Philadelphia in 1905 into a family of artists and art dealers. His family included Howard Newman, an illustrator, and George Newman, a noted landscape painter from Lansdale, Pennsylvania. The artists grandfather, Adolph, and great uncle, George, founded Newman Galleries in 1865.
As a young man, he summered with his family at the New Jersey shore where his fascination with the sea, dunes and bays inspired his painting career.
Although raised in an artistic environment, Andrews did not attend a formal art school. He studied with two family friends and prominent Philadelphia artists, S. George Phillips and William G. Krieghoff. His work was greatly influenced by the leading 19th-century marine artist William Trost Richards.
Andrews work evolved into a highly personal style, interpreting the many moods of the eastern coastal areas from studios in Cape May and Avalon, New Jersey, and Daytona Beach and Titusville, Florida.
Many of the artists paintings were published by New York Graphic Society and were collected by prominent corporate and private patrons. The Flanders Hotel in Ocean City, New Jersey, designed three public rooms to accommodate their collection of his work. He exhibited widely along the eastern coast of the United States.
The artist died in 1969 in Philadelphia.
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