William Aiken Walker was an American artist best known for his genré paintings of black sharecroppers. He also documented the American Civil War era during his service in the Confederate Army.
• • Walker was born to an Irish Protestant father, John Falls Walker, and a mother, Mary Elizabeth (Flint) Walker, of South Carolina background in Charleston, South Carolina in 1838. In 1841, when his father died, Walker's mother moved the family to Baltimore, Maryland, where they remained until returning to Charleston in 1848.
Walker is best known for his paintings depicting the lives of poor black emancipated slaves, especially sharecroppers in the post-Reconstruction American South. Two of his paintings were reproduced by Currier and Ives as chromolithographs.
Walker continued painting until his death on January 3, 1921 in Charleston, where he is buried in the family plot at Magnolia Cemetery.
• • Walker was born to an Irish Protestant father, John Falls Walker, and a mother, Mary Elizabeth (Flint) Walker, of South Carolina background in Charleston, South Carolina in 1838. In 1841, when his father died, Walker's mother moved the family to Baltimore, Maryland, where they remained until returning to Charleston in 1848.
Walker is best known for his paintings depicting the lives of poor black emancipated slaves, especially sharecroppers in the post-Reconstruction American South. Two of his paintings were reproduced by Currier and Ives as chromolithographs.
Walker continued painting until his death on January 3, 1921 in Charleston, where he is buried in the family plot at Magnolia Cemetery.
William Aiken Walker was an American artist best known for his genré paintings of black sharecroppers. He also documented the American Civil War era during his service in the Confederate Army.
• • Walker was born to an Irish Protestant father, John Falls Walker, and a mother, Mary Elizabeth (Flint) Walker, of South Carolina background in Charleston, South Carolina in 1838. In 1841, when his father died, Walker's mother moved the family to Baltimore, Maryland, where they remained until returning to Charleston in 1848.
Walker is best known for his paintings depicting the lives of poor black emancipated slaves, especially sharecroppers in the post-Reconstruction American South. Two of his paintings were reproduced by Currier and Ives as chromolithographs.
Walker continued painting until his death on January 3, 1921 in Charleston, where he is buried in the family plot at Magnolia Cemetery.
• • Walker was born to an Irish Protestant father, John Falls Walker, and a mother, Mary Elizabeth (Flint) Walker, of South Carolina background in Charleston, South Carolina in 1838. In 1841, when his father died, Walker's mother moved the family to Baltimore, Maryland, where they remained until returning to Charleston in 1848.
Walker is best known for his paintings depicting the lives of poor black emancipated slaves, especially sharecroppers in the post-Reconstruction American South. Two of his paintings were reproduced by Currier and Ives as chromolithographs.
Walker continued painting until his death on January 3, 1921 in Charleston, where he is buried in the family plot at Magnolia Cemetery.
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