Lot Essay
This painting will be included in John Fowler's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
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Newsboy Selling the Baltimore Sun
Details
William Aiken Walker (1838-1921)
Newsboy Selling the Baltimore Sun
signed and dated 'WAWalker 1871' (lower left)
oil on board
12 x 8¼ in. (30.5 x 21 cm.)
Newsboy Selling the Baltimore Sun
signed and dated 'WAWalker 1871' (lower left)
oil on board
12 x 8¼ in. (30.5 x 21 cm.)
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Missbach, Atlanta, Georgia.
Literature
A.P. Trovaioli and R.B. Toledano, William Aiken Walker: Southern Genre Painter, Louisiana State University, 1972, pl. 6, illustrated.
C. Seibels, The Sunny South: The Life and Art of William Aiken Walker, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1995, pp. 53-54, fig. 18, illustrated.
C. Seibels, The Sunny South: The Life and Art of William Aiken Walker, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1995, pp. 53-54, fig. 18, illustrated.
Exhibited
New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana State Museum, The World of William Aiken Walker, December 1972-January 1973.
Special notice
Tax exempt.