Lot Essay
This painting will be included in John Fowler's forthcoming catalogue raisonne of the artist's work.
Details
WILLIAM AIKEN WALKER
The Cotton Wagon
signed WAWalker with initials conjoined, l.l.
-- oil on canvas
18 x 30 in. (45.8 x 76.2 cm.)
The Cotton Wagon
signed WAWalker with initials conjoined, l.l.
-- oil on canvas
18 x 30 in. (45.8 x 76.2 cm.)
Provenance
Chapellier Galleries, New York
Literature
A.P. Trovaioli and R.B. Toledano, William A. Walker, Southern Genre Painter, Baton Rouge, 1972, pl. 15, illu.
Art News, Dec. 1969
Art News, Dec. 1969
Exhibited
St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, The Good Life, An Exhibition of American Genre Painting by Artists Born during the First Four Decades of the 19th Century, Sept.-Oct. 1971, no. 33, illus.
(this exhibition later travelled to Orlando, Orlando Museum of Art, Nov. 1971)
New Orleans, Lousiana State Museum, The World of William Aiken Walker, Dec. 1972-Jan. 1973
(this exhibition later travelled to Orlando, Orlando Museum of Art, Nov. 1971)
New Orleans, Lousiana State Museum, The World of William Aiken Walker, Dec. 1972-Jan. 1973