biography of Ferdinand G(raham) WALKER (1859-1927)

Birth place: Mitchell, IN

Death place: New Albany, IN

Addresses: New Albany, IN

Profession: Painter

Studied: Académie Colarossi, Dagnan-Bouvert, Puvis de Chavannes, Blanche, Merson, all in Paris

Exhibited: S. Indp. A., 1922, 1924

Member: S. Indp. A.; Louisville AA; Chicago AG; Chicago NJSA; SSAL; Hoosier Salon

Work: Kentucky State Hist. Soc. Collection; Univ. Kentucky Art Mus., Lexington; Berea College; Agricultural College, MI; Lincoln Inst., Simpsonville, KY; Kentucky State Collection, Frankfort; State House, Indianapolis; Jefferson Davis Mem., Fairview, KY; Public Libraries, Louisville, Lexington, both in KY; New Albany, IN; Evansville College; Greenbrier College; Courier Journal Bldg., Univ. Louisville; public gallery, New Albany, IN; murals, St. Peter's Church, Louisville

Comments: Returned from Paris to settle in Washington, DC where he painted portraits of senators and congressmen. In the 1890s he established a studio in Louisville, where he worked as a portrait painter, although he occasionally painted landscapes and religious subjects. He retired in 1925.

Sources: WW25; Jones and Weber, The Kentucky Painter from the Frontier Era to the Great War, 69-70 (w/repro.)