William Aiken Walker \"The Old Traveler\" CUSTOM FRAMED Black Rural Art NEW For Sale

William Aiken Walker\"The Old Traveler\"

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• NEW
• Custom Framed in brown frame
• Framed Size : 18\" x 22\"
• Image Size: 16\" x 20\"
• Framed in the USA
• Hanging hardware included on back of frame
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About the Artist:

William Aiken Walker was an American artist known for his depictions of the American South, particularly scenes of Black sharecroppers in cotton fields. His works, such as the painting entitled \"Cotton Picker Family,\" offer a glimpse into the agricultural life of the period,Walker\'s work is part of the genre of paintings known for portraying the lives of African Americans, especially sharecroppers in the post-Reconstruction American South.Walker\'s work can be found in various museum collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Newark Museum, the Amon Carter Museum, the High Museum of Art, and the Morris Museum of Art.

William Aiken Walker(March 11, 1839 – January 3, 1921) was an American artist best known forgenrepaintings of African-Americansharecroppers.He also documented the American Civil War era during his service in the Confederate Army.

Walker was born to anIrish Protestant father and a mother of South Carolina background inCharleston, SC.in 1839. In 1841, after his father died, Walker\'s family remained in Charleston where Walker grew up.

In 1861, during theAmerican Civil War, Walker was conscripted in the Confederate Army and was sent to Morris Island as part of the Palmetto Guard. Almost immediately, Walker was sent on to Richmond and Camp Davis. Four months later, he received a medical discharge from the army. For the remainder of the war he served as a civilian draftsman to the Confederate Engineers Corps and made maps and drawings of Charleston\'s defenses. He was separated from the military at the end of 1864. After the Civil War, Walker moved to Baltimore, where he produced small paintings of the \"Old South\" to sell as tourist souvenirs.

He is best known for his paintings depicting the lives of poor black emancipated slaves, especiallysharecroppers in the post- ReconstructionAmerican South. Walker continued painting until his death on January 3, 1921, in Charleston, where he is buried in the family plot at Magnolia Cemetery.