John Edward Walker, he often signed work as J. Edward Walker (1880–1940) was a British-born, American painter and educator, known for his California Impressionist paintings. He was active in Northern California and Los Angeles between 1913 until 1936. The subject of his work was often seascapes, floral still life paintings and landscapes. He taught art classes from 1913 until 1916 at the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club, in Los Altos in the 1920s and Berkeley in 1932.

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He was born in Wales in 1880 and studied at

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and

Hammersmith School of Art West London College, legally known as the Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College is a large further and higher education college in West London, England, formed in 2002 by the merger between Ealing Tertiary College and Hammersmith and West ...

, with

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and Harry Windsor-Fry. Walker immigrated to the United States in 1911, and moved to Northern California by 1913. Initially he settled in

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, painting and teaching art lessons. In 1914,

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newspaper named Williamson one of a few “notable” artists of Carmel. In the early 1920s Walker moved to Los Altos, California and taught art, became active with the Palo Alto Art Club (now known as Pacific Art League), and exhibited work at Stanford University. He also exhibited at the California League of Fine Arts and served on the hanging committee in 1925. In the early 1930s he moved and lived at 2233 Ellsworth Street in

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, California and offered art classes from his home, one of the students included

Sargent Johnson Sargent Claude Johnson (October 7, 1888 – October 10, 1967) was one of the first African-American artists working in California to achieve a national reputation.

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1880 births 1940 deaths People from Los Altos, California People from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California Artists from Berkeley, California 20th-century American artists British emigrants to the United States {{US-painter-stub