Charles Alvah Walker
Date of birth: 1848
Place of birth: New Hampshire
Date of death: 1925
Category: artist
Identity:
The son of Charles H. and Julia P. Walker, Charles Alvah Walker married Mary E Walker, who was also from New Hampshire.
A painter, etcher and engraver, he was a member of the Boston Art Club, the London Print Sellers Association, and the Copley Society. He
Life:
He is said to have invented the term 'monotype' around 1880 and together with Whistler's friend Otto Henry Bacher (1856-1909) and William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) and others, established a 'Monotype Club' in New York in the 1880s.
He also advised several major collectors in building up their collections. He probably owned Study of a Head y427 in 1898.
Bibliography:
US birth and census (1860, 1910, 1920) records, Ancestry.com.
Moser, Joann, Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America, Smithsonian, Washington DC 1997. 'Charles Alvah Walker', American Art News, Vol. 18, No. 26 (17 April 1920), p. 4 in jstor. 'Charles Alva Walker', White Mountain Art & Artists, website.
