| Walker, Ione | ||||||||||
| type | Artist Dealer/Gallery Patron | |||||||||
| dates | 1915-1987 | |||||||||
| city | New York City | |||||||||
| state | NY | |||||||||
| other cities | Provincetown, MA; | |||||||||
| sex | F | |||||||||
| history |
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. |
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| decades | 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:17 | |||||||||
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