Walter Launt Palmer

Background

Walter Launt Palmer was born on August 1, 1854 in Albany County, New York, United States. He was the son of Erastus Dow Palmer, the sculptor, and Mary Jane Seaman.

Education

Walter Launt Palmer received his first lessons in drawing from his father; later he studied painting for two years (1870 - 1872) under Frederick E. Church at Hudson, New York. In 1873 he went to Paris, where he was a pupil of Carolus-Duran for a year (1876 - 1877).

Career

In 1877, Walter Launt Palmer opened a studio in New York, where he devoted himself to landscape painting. He made his debut a year later, sending to the National Academy exhibition "An Interior" and "Montigny-sur-Loing" (1878). In 1891 he moved from New York to Albany, where the greater part of his professional life was passed thereafter. One of his earliest winter landscapes, "January, " was bought by Thomas B. Clarke.

Although landscapes were his most popular subjects, he produced from time to time equally excellent figure pieces and interiors. An interior which was at the Academy in 1878, and which was also hung in one of the exhibitions of the Union League Club, New York, was highly praised by a critic for the New York Evening Post.

He sent three of his pictures to the Chicago Exposition of 1893 an "Early Snow, " "Autumn Morning Mist Clearing Away", and the early "January" which belonged to Clarke's collection. At the St. Louis exhibition of 1904 he was represented by "Evening Lights" and "Across the Fields, " and received a bronze medal for his oil paintings and a silver medal for his four water-colors. Palmer's landscapes are characterized by the keen and luminous effects of the winter season, the forcible contrasts of light and shade which are the results of sharp frosts and unclouded sunlight. He made the winter with its snows his particular province. He died at his birthplace, Albany on April 16, 1932.

Achievements

• Walter Launt Palmer was famous for his winter landscape scenes. His most famous painings were Silent Dawn, January, Early Snow, Autumn Morning Mist Clearing Away, Evening Lights, Across the Fields, Roadside Cedars, and Albany in the snow.

Works

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  • Global Gallery Budget GCS-268359-22-142 Walter Launt Palmer Winter Sun Gallery Wrap Giclee on Canvas Wall Art Print

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  • Walter Launt Palmer Winter Sunset Private Collection ~ 30" x 20" Fine Art Giclee Canvas Print (Unframed) Reproduction

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  • Walter Launt Palmer Winter Landscape Private Collection ~ 30" x 25" Fine Art Giclee Canvas Print (Unframed) Reproduction

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  • Walter Launt Palmer Gate to The Apple Orchard at Olana Private Collection 1872~30" x 18" Fine Art Giclee Canvas Print (Unframed) Reproduction

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  • Walter Launt Palmer Albany in The Snow Private Collection 1871~30" x 24" Fine Art Giclee Canvas Print (Unframed) Reproduction

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Membership

Walter Launt Palmer was a member of the American Water-Color Society and of the Society of American Artists.

Connections

Walter Launt Palmer was twice married: first on November 25, 1890, to Georgianna Myers, and on December 26, 1895. Some years after the death of his first wife, he was married to Zoe de V. Wyndham of England. Walter had one daughter.

Father:

Erastus Dow Palmer

Mother:

Mary Jane Seaman Palmer

Spouse:

Zoe DeV Wyndham Palmer

Spouse:

Georgianna Myers Palmer

Daughter:

Beatrice Palmer