- William Guy Wall
William Guy Wall (1792 – 1864) was an American painter of Irish birth.
Wall was born in
Dublin in 1792 and arrived in New York in 1812. He was already a well trained artist and soon became well known for his sensitive watercolor views of the Hudson River Valley and surroundings. Some of these watercolors were published as engravings by John Hill and his son John William Hill in the Hudson River Portfolio (New York, 1821-1825), one of the first publications to make Americans aware of the beauty of their own country. Wall’s landscapes (and a few seascapes) were straight-forward representations of America’s awe-inspiring vistas—neither romanticized nor idealized. He is classified as either a forerunner or an early member of theHudson River school . Wall was a founding member of theNational Academy of Design (New York) and exhibited frequently at such institutions as thePennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia) and the Apollo Association (New York). He lived in America from 1812 to 1835 and again from 1856 to 1860. He returned to Ireland in 1860 and died id Dublin in 1864. William Guy Wall’s son, William Archibald Wall (1820–1875), was also a landscape painter.The
Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth, Texas), theHonolulu Academy of Arts , theHudson River Museum (Yonkers, New York), theMetropolitan Museum of Art and theNew-York Historical Society are among the public collections having paintings by William Guy Wall.References
*Howat, John K., "A Picturesque Site in the Catskills: The Kaaterskill Falls as Painted by William Guy Wall", "Honolulu Academy of Arts Journal", vol. I, 1974, 16.
External links
* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/wall_william_guy.html ArtCyclopedia]
* [http://www.nypl.org/research/hudson/search/wall1.html A Hudson River Portfolio]
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