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William Aiken Walker (1838-1921)
New Orleans Levee Scene
signed with conjoined initials 'WAWalker.' (lower right)
oil on copper plate
11¾ in. (29.8 cm.) diameter
Executed circa 1884-85.
Literature
A.P. Trovaioli, R.B. Toledano, William Aiken Walker: Southern Genre Painter, Gretna, Louisiana, 2008, p. 34, fig. 4, illustrated.
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This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by John Fowler. This work was probably produced as a momento of the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, held in New Orleans in 1884.

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