Walker, Ione

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role

Artist Dealer/Gallery Patron

dates

1915-1987

city

New York City

state

NY

other cities

Provincetown, MA;

sex

F

historical notes

She and her art historian husband, Hudson Dean Walker, operated the Hudson D Walker Gallery on 57th Street from 1936 to 1940. They showed the work of such artists as Marsden Hartley, Mervyn Jules, Joseph Hirsch, and Harry Sternberg.

Mrs. Walker exhibited her paintings at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York and the Provincetown Art Museum.

In 1967, she and her husband helped to found the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, which provides fellowships for emerging artists and writers. She was also a founder of the Provincetown Symphony Society and was its president from 1954 to 1958.

decades
of activity

1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980

updated

10/31/2024 13:33:17

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Hudson D. Walker papers, 1920-1982.	see details...
National Portrait Gallery Library Smithsonian American Art Museum	Artist file: Walker, Ione Gaul , 1915- 1987	see details...