| Anne
Walker (Boston, 1933 - ) Resides, Paris
An important contemporary printmaker,
painter and creator of hand-made books, Anne Walker first studied art in
Boston at Smith College. She then travelled to Paris in 1956
to complete
her education at the atelier of the famous German artist, Johnny Friedlaender
(b. 1912). Walker's first aquatints and etchings were created
at his studio.
In the early 1970's she made Paris her permanent home. Besides producing
her own prints and paintings she has also created art in collaboration
with
her husband, Bertrand Dorny.
Most of Anne Walker's original aquatints date from the 1970's
and early 1980's. Although she was then living permanently in Paris, her
aquatints and other works of art draw upon the forests and trees of New
England as the primary source of inspiration. As one can see in such fine
aquatints as Mabbin, however, these are not realistic portrayals
of nature, but tonal compositions transformed by abstracted movements and
memories. Beginning around 1989, Walker dedicated much of her oeuvre to
the creation of what she terms, 'painted books'. Each page of these works
is either painted and or aquatinted by hand in conjunction with the words
and writings of her favorite authors, whom she states are, "living
and phantom collaborators" * These include such authors as Emily Dickinson,
Thoreau, Kenneth Koch, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. In 2003
a major exhibition of Walker's painted books took place at the Boston Athenaeum.
In 1956 Anne Walker's first solo exhibition was held at the
Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. Since that time her aquatints, paintings
and books have been the subject of one woman exhibitions at major galleries
in San Francisco, Indianapolis, New York, Paris, Goteborg, Sweden, Lausanne,
Switzerland, Essen, Germany, Luxembourg and Nice. She has also regularly
exhibited with the Boston Printmakers, the Salon de Mai and La Jeune Gravure
Contemporaine, Paris.
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