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All Walter Shirlaw 's Paintings
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ID Image  Painting (From A to Z)       Details 
33025  
A Sonnet, Walter Shirlaw
 
 A Sonnet   nn08 Watercolour
71632  
Lake Superior, Walter Shirlaw
 
 Lake Superior   ca. 1890(1890) Oil on board 31.1 x 46.9 cm (12.24 x 18.46 in)
72831  
Lake Superior, Walter Shirlaw
 
 Lake Superior   Date ca. 1890(1890) Medium Oil on board Dimensions 31.1 X 46.9 cm (12.24 X 18.46 in) cyf

Walter Shirlaw
Scottish-American artist , 1838-1909 was a Scottish-American artist. Shirlaw was born in Paisley, Scotland, and moved to the United States with his parents in 1840. He worked as a bank-note engraver, and his work was first exhibited at the National Academy in 1861. He was elected an academician of the Chicago Academy of Design in 1868. Among his pupils there was Frederick Stuart Church. From 1870 to 1877 he studied in Munich, under George Raab, Richard Wagner, Arthur George von Ramberg, and Wilhelm Lindenschmidt. His first work of importance was the Toning of the Bell (1874), which was followed by Sheep-shearing in the Bavarian Highlands (1876). The latter, which is probably the best of his works, received honorable mention at the Paris exposition in 1878. Other notable works from his easel are Good Morning (1878), in the Buffalo Academy; Indian Girl and Very Old (1880); Gossip (1884); and Jealousy (1886), owned by the Academy of Design, New York. His largest work is the frieze for the dining-room in the house of Darius O. Mills in New York. Shirlaw has also earned an excellent reputation as an illustrator. He was one of the founders of the Society of American Artists, and was its first president. On his return from Europe he took charge of the Art Students League of New York, and for several years taught in the composition class.



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