Education
He studied engraving under Frank French and J. C. Smithwick. He also studied art and engraving abroad. He studied drawing and painting in Paris under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.
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Walter Montieth Aikman
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He was a noted engraver, etcher, bookplate designer, and artist of the Visual arts He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New New York
In "A Directory of Bookplate Artists, with notes concerning their work" (1921), edited and compiled by Alfred Fowler, Aikman provided the following statement: "I engrave bookplates on copper and wood and also etch them. I do not specialize. The cost depends on the time a given design takes to complete.
I have been making bookplates for about eight or ten years."
"Walter M. Aikman was a noted artist and bookplate designer, who created a bookplate for Elizabeth Mast Hyatt herself in 1912.
This design for Aikman"s own bookplate shows a landscape with a pond, swan and human figure surrounded by an elaborate frame. The Latin inscription "Sub Robore Virtus" translates as "Virtue Under Strength."
"His latest and best is his own I have had the privilege to reproducing.
The beautiful ornamental framework is engraved with the Burin. This Mr. Aikman cleverly adapted from an old Italian design.
The central panel is a reduced copy, in etching, of Mr.
Aikman"s masterpiece in wood engraving, "Sunset, Louisiana Hulpe," engraved by him from his own design in oil while at Louisiana Hulpe, Belgium. Fielding, Mantle. 1983. "Aikman, Walter Monteith".
Mantle Fielding"s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers.
8. 1909. "Walter Monteith Aikman". Who"s Who in New York City and State.
4: 12. Herringshaw, Thomas William.
1909. "Aikman, Walter Monteith". Herringshaw"s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-Five Thousand of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States.
Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits. Volume 1, page 65. Radin, Herman T. 1914.
"Walter M. Aikman" American Bookplate Society.
Pages 44–45.
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1939 (aged 82)