Walker, Ione
type Artist Dealer/Gallery Patron
dates 1915-1987
city New York City
stateNY
other citiesProvincetown, 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.
decades1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
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Repository Description 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 alsoWalker, Hudson D. (Hudson Dean), 1907-