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Walker, Ione print view role Artist Dealer/Gallery Patron dates 1915-1987 city New York City state NY other cities Provincetown, MA; gender F historical notes Ione Gaul Walker was a painter, arts patron, collector and dealer. She and her husband, Hudson Dean Walker (art historian, operated the Hudson D Walker Gallery on 57th Street from 1936 to 1940, where they showed the work of such artists as Marsden Hartley, Mervyn Jules, Joseph Hirsch and Harry Sternberg. Mrs. Walker exhibited her own 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 02/07/2020 18:21:15 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Archive Location Collection Title Links 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... see also: Walker, Hudson D. (Hudson Dean), 1907- «  back