Altus Arts

Description

A fine watercolour painting by Edward Walker depicting cows returning to the farmyard.
Edward Walker was a multi-talented landscape painter, poster designer, etcher, black and white artist, craft worker and designer who worked in oils, watercolour, tempura and frequently painted rural and town scenes.
Walker was born in Bradford on 17th January 1879 and studied at Bradford College of Art from 1895-1900, Royal College of Art 1900-06. He also worked in Holland, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Morocco. He later become Head of the Design Department at Sheffield Technical School of Art where he worked between 1906 and 1908. He then became Head of the Art Department at London County Council Paddington Technical Institute from 1908 to 1911, and thence Director of Art at Cheltenham Ladies College from 1911 to 1920. Finally he took the post of Headmaster at Scarborough School of Art from 1921.
Walker exhibited widely including
Royal Society of Arts, Birmingham (3)
Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts (1)
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (3)
Royal Academy of Arts (28)
Royal Society of British Artists (6)
Royal Cambrian Academy (1)
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (1)