“palmettos” Walter Ronald Locke (1883-1949) Original Etching signed c1940

Description: “Palmettos” Walter Ronald Locke (1883-1949) Original Etching signed c1940. The original etching was glued to cardboard and a matting glued on top. The margin of the etching has been reduced to improve the overall appearance. The artwork remains as it was originally. (716) An enigmatic figure, Walter Locke had a studio on the Anclote River in Tarpon Springs from 1935 to his death in 1949. His etchings are some of the most sensitive and beautiful done in Florida. Locke was an artist with a national reputation for his etchings, thousands were published by the Associated American Artists Gallery in New York City. On back of each of his etchings a brief biography reads, “W.R. Locke spent twelve years actually living and working in the woods, without ever once coming out to a civilized center. Locke loves trees and spends his summers with them in the hill country, and his winters with them in the South. Locke was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, and studied art under Louis Kronbert and Alfred Hutty. During his lifetime, he exhibited at the Library of Congress and Society of American Etchers. He was also affiliated with Associated American Artists, an organization founded to produce and market fine art prints nationwide. The latter marketed his prints with a biography that noted "[h]is works are often the results of months of study, and of an almost impossible amount of long hard work, so that every least bit of foliage may be accurate and detailed." His works are in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Carnegie Museums, Pittsburgh; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; and the Yale University Art Gallery.

Price: 99 USD

Location: Jacksonville, Florida

End Time: 2025-02-09T17:15:45.000Z

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