Jun 09, 2005 - Sale 2046

Sale 2046 - Lot 65

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MARTHA WALTER
Spanish Façade.

Pencil and watercolor on tracing paper. 235x183 mm; 91/4x71/4 inches. Signed in watercolor, lower right.

Walter studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art with William Merritt Chase. After receiving a 2 year traveling Cresson Scholarship, she left Philadelphia and traveled to France, Spain, Italy and Holland and attended the Academie Grande Chaumiere and the Academie Julian in Paris. She then established a studio in the Rue De Bagneaus and, with the start of WWI, returned to the states where she set up a studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts.