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Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, retaining label for the Wunderly Brothers, Pittsburgh to verso of the stretcher, presented in an ornate giltwood frame under glass.
Stretcher size 13 x 17 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 21 1/4 x 25 3/4 in.
From the Estate of the late Margaret Fisher Terry, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Chapel Hill, North Carolina David Walkley was born in Rock Creek, Ohio, and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He briefly had a studio in Philadelphia, before moving to Cleveland in the early 1870s, keeping a studio there for six years. In 1878, Walkley went to study in Paris at the Academie Mosler and the Academie Julian, under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. After returning to the United States, he taught at the Pittsburgh School of Design. Later, Walkley settled in New York, where he studied at the Art Students' League with William Merritt Chase. At the turn of the century, Walkley settled in New London Connecticut to paint and raise a family. In 1902, he moved to Mystic, Connecticut where he helped found the Mystic Art Association, joining fellow painters Henry Ward Ranger, J. Eliot Enneking, and Charles Davis.
Walkley was a member of the Salmagundi Club, the Society of American Artists, and the Pittsburgh Art Association. He exhibited at the National Academy, the Philadelphia Art Club, the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as at independent shows in New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
Age cracking to canvas, very minute separations to verso of canvas, not examined under the glass, frame with professional repairs.