biography of Walter Joseph WILWERDING (1891-1966)

Birth place: Winona, MN

Addresses: Old Greenwich, CT ; Minneapolis, MN in 1966

Profession: Painter wildlife), illustrator, teacher, writer, lecturer, photographer

Studied: Minneapolis School Art; landscape with Edwin M. Dawes, 1919-15; R. Koehler; G. Doetsch; L. M. Phoenix; M. Cheney.

Exhibited: Old Greenwich (CT) Artists; Minneapolis and St. Paul annually; Northwestern Artists Annual; many solo shows in New York, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Beverly Hills and elsewhere nationally.

Member: Soc. Animal Artists (charter member); Assn. of Professional Artists, Minneapolis.

Work: Explorers Club Bldg., Chicago, and in the collections of prominent American collectors.

Comments: Positions: instructor, animal drawing, 1926-32, 1941-48, vice-pres. & dir. educ., 1948-61, Art Instruction Schools, Minneapolis, MN; member, Nat. Advisory Council for Art Instruction Schools. Author/illustrator: Animal Drawing and Painting, 1946, rev. 1956; The Cats in Action, 1962; How to Draw and Paint Hoofed Animals, 1963; How to Draw and Paint Textures of Animals, 1965; Jangwa, The Story of a Jungle Prince, Keema of the Monkey People, Punda, the Tiger-Horse. Illustrator: True Bear Stories, J. Miller; King of the Grizzlies, A. Richardson, Under Western Heavens, Olai Aslagsson; Indian Moons, Winona Blanche Allen. Contributor as author and/or illustrator to Sports Afield, This Week Magazine, Boy's Life, Blue Book, Nature, Fauna, Red Cross Magazine, Western Sportsman, True West, Audubon Magazine, Bulletin of New York Zoological Soc.

Sources: WW66; WW40.