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William Aiken Walker (1838 - 1921)

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Lived/Active: South Carolina Known for: cotton kingdom genre, landscape

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Comments: William Aiken Walker lived and painted in Texas for several years during the 1870s, arriving in Galveston in 1874 and spending most of his time there. In 1876, he moved to San Antonio for six months before leaving Texas altogether. Walker later became widely known for his genre paintings of African American cotton field workers in the Deep South. From Walker’s two year period in Texas, less than ten paintings have been located and less than five published. No other paintings of Walker’s Texas children have been located. Walker began painting this genre of children street vendors with “Newsboy Selling the Baltimore Sun” ( 1871;High Museum of Art, Atlanta), which offers the closest comparison to “San Antonio Flower Girl”. The accurately detailed Mexican skirt, serape, blanket, and ceramic water pot all relate to the costume and crafts of San Antonio during this Mexican-influenced 1870s period, a period which was the heyday of the Old West in San Antonio as well. “Flower Girl” bears comparison to the genre paintings of Theodore Gentilz(1819-1906), pioneer San Antonio artist and art teacher active in the city from 1844 to 1894 who plausibly gave instruction to Walker. Walker’s major San Antonio painting, “San Jose Mission” (1876; Witte Museum, San Antonio) is an architecturally focused picture with a Mexican man and woman in the foreground. The two people are shown with particular attention to costume details and compare closely with Walker’s detailed depiction of the Mexican girl’s costume in “Flower Girl”, which also has an architectural background relating to San Antonio. Signed verso on original stretcher with partial conjoined initials: "-AW". Provenance: Private Coll. San Antonio, late 19th c. Letter of Authentication. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: Cybthia Seibels, "The Sunny South, The Life and Art of William Aiken Walker",Spartanburg, SC, 1995. Cecilia Steinfeldt,"Art for History’s Sake, The Texas Collection of the Witte Museum",Austin, 1993. Pauline

Artist Name:		William Aiken Walker
Category:		Painting
Title:		San Antonio Flower Girl
Signed:		Verso
Size:		15"H x 12"W
Medium:		Oil
Material/Ground:		Canvas
Style:		Realist
Subject:		Figure/Portrait/Genre
Created:		1876
Price:		Please Contact Dealer
Ad Number:		AAIG86176

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