A Distinguished Visitor to the Exposition

Details

William Aiken Walker (1838-1921)
A Distinguished Visitor to the Exposition
signed with conjoined initials and dated 'WAWalker. 1884.' (lower right)
oil on canvas laid down on board
16 x 10 in. (40.6 x 25.4 cm.)
Painted in 1884.

Literature

A.P. Trovaioli, R.B. Toledano, William Aiken Walker: Southern Genre Painter, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1972, p. 91, illustrated (as Gwine to Der Expersision).
C. Seibels, The Sunny South: The Life and Art of William Aiken Walker, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1995, pp. 114, 214 (as Gwine to Der Expersision).
A.P. Trovaioli, R.B. Toledano, William Aiken Walker: Southern Genre Painter, Gretna, Louisiana, 2008, p. 151, illustrated (as Gwine to Der Expersision).

Exhibited

New Orleans, Lousiana, Seebold's Art Gallery, November 1884.

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by John Fowler.

August P. Trovaioli and Roulhac B. Toledano write of the present work, "'Hotel Royal' [on the figure's bag] refers to a fashionable boarding house in the French Quarter, New Orleans, frequented by [William Aiken] Walker. Also, there is an advertisement for Green River Whisky with this same figure, Deacon Cuffy, standing by a mule." (William Aiken Walker: Southern Genre Painter, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1972, p. 91)

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