Biography from Trotter Galleries:
| Born near Falls City, Nebraska on April 1, 1891, Nell Walker graduated
from the Lexington, MO Women’s College in 1910. Following a brief
teaching assignment in Colorado Springs, she moved to Los Angeles and
studied at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design, receiving a
diploma in 1916. She then taught art classes at the Hollywood
School for Girls and the Westlake School for Girls (1916-1918) and
later did backgrounds for titles of silent motion pictures.
After her marriage to Dr. Bion S. Warner in 1920, she traveled in
Europe and spent three summers in Cape Ann (MA) where she painted many
harbor scenes; however, southern California remained her home.
During the 1920s she was art curator of the Tuesday Afternoon Club and
further studied locally with Nicolai Fechin, Fritz Werner, and Paul
Lauritz in Los Angeles.
Although divorced from her first
husband, she continued to use his name professionally even after she
married Emil Shorstrom in 1945. In 1952 they moved north to Carmel
where she remained until her death on Nov. 30, 1970. Antony Anderson,
art critic of the Los Angeles Times, stated that she was one of the
ablest flower painters America has produced.
Her work also includes landscapes of California and New England coast.
Member:
California Art Club; Glendale Art Association; California WC Society;
Laguna Beach Art Association; Artland Club; Academy of Western Painters
(LA); Pasadena Society of Artists; Women Painters of the West (pres.
1946-48); Society of Western Artists; Carmel Art Association.
Exhibited:
Warner received one-woman exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York,
Portland (Oregon), Oklahoma City, and Hawaii. She exhibited in shows of
the Laguna Beach Art Association; Pasadena Art Institute; Artists of
Southern California, San Diego; Arizona State Fair, Phoenix; Pasadena
Society of Artists; Springville Museum of Art, Utah; GGIE; Carmel Art
Association; Academy of Western Painters; California Watercolor
Society; Gardena High School; Women Painters of the West; Ebell Club;
Artists Fiesta; Artists of the Southwest; Southern California Fair,
1925 (1st prize); California Eisteddfod, 1925 (four gold and silver
medals); California Art Club, 1925-38; Wilshire Gallery (LA), 1928;
California State Fair, 1929 (3rd prize), 1931 (1st prize); Santa Cruz
Art League, 1930 (prize); Desert Sun Gallery (Palm Springs), 1937
(solo); GGIE, 1940; Society for Sanity in Art, CPLH, 1945; Artists
Guild of America (Carmel), 1953, 1955, 1960, 1963 (solos).
In: Walker is represented in the collection of the City of Los Angeles; LACMA
Source: An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West/Kovinick; Independent Spirits/Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945/Trenton; Artists in California, 1786-1940/Hughes.
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Biography from William A. Karges Fine Art - Beverly Hills:
| Nell Walker Warner was born in Richardson County, Nebraska, in 1891. Her art studies were at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. She was an active member of the southern California art community, where she studied with Paul Lauritz and Nicolai Fechin, and curated the Tuesday Afternoon Club in Los Angeles.
In 1950 she moved to Carmel, where she died in 1970.
She is best remembered for her floral still lifes, and New England harbor scenes. |
Biography from AskART:
| Kevin Derby provided this biography, which he found on the web site: www.fleischer.org/femvision.htm
Floral and landscape painter, Nell Walker Warner was born April 1, 1891 in Nebraska. She was educated in Colorado Springs and Missouri before graduating from the Los Angeles School of Art & Design in 1916.
After her graduation, she instructed art classes and painted backdrops for silent films. She furthered her studies under the tutelage of Nicolai Fechin, Fritz Werner and Paul Lauritz. She traveled throughout Europe and spent three summers painting in Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Here she painted many ocean and harbor scenes.
La Canada, California remained her home until after her second marriage when she moved north to Carmel. She was very active in the art clubs and organizations of California and won many awards and prizes for her work until her death in l970.
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