Lionel Walden (May 22, 1862
[WALDEN, Lionel]
in '' Who's Who in America'' (1901–1902 edition), via archive.org–1933) was an American painter active in Hawaii, Cornwall, and France.
Biography
He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1862. He first became interested in art in Minnesota, where the family moved when his father Treadwell
[ became rector of an Episcopal Church there. As a young man, Walden moved to Paris, where he studied painting with ]Carolus-Duran
Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran (Lille 4 July 1837 – 17 February 1917 Paris), was a French painter and art instructor.
He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.
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. In around 1893–97, Walden was in England, living in Falmouth. Paintings of Cardiff in Wales are in museums in Cardiff, Paris, and Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi (, ; ar, أَبُو ظَبْيٍ ' ) is the capital and second-most populous city (after Dubai) of the United Arab Emirates. It is also the capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the centre of the Abu Dhabi Metropolitan Area.
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. Walden received medals from the Paris Salon
The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...
and was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honor. He visited Hawaii in 1911 and several times thereafter. Walden died in Chantilly, France in 1933.
According to David H. Forbes, author of ''Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778–1941'', Lionel Walden "was the finest seascape painter to work in Hawaii". The Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...
, the Henry Art Gallery (University of Washington, Seattle), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Isaacs Art Center
The Isaacs Art Center is an art museum and retail gallery in Waimea on the Island of Hawaii. It is operated by and for the benefit of the Hawaii Preparatory Academy; all proceeds benefit the school's scholarship fund.
In addition to its retail ...
(Waimea, Hawaii), the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper and the Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art ...
are among the public collections holding works by Lionel Walden.
Notable works
The auction record for a painting by Lionel Walden is $73,440. This record was set by ''Breaking Waves'', a 24 by 51.5 inch oil painting on canvas sold March 2, 2007, at Skinner Inc. (Marlborough, Massachusetts
Marlborough is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 41,793 at the 2020 census. Marlborough became a prosperous industrial town in the 19th century and made the transition to high technology industry in the ...
).[AskArt.com accessed Jan. 4, 2011]
A painting by Walden, "The Wave" (1908) is since 2015 in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Quimper (France), (don d'Elisabeth Willmott et Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond en mémoire de Jean et Jacqueline Jumeau-Lafond).
Relatives
Walden was the brother of Arthur Treadwell Walden.[Lionel Walden’s far-flung kin pays a visit and shares family stories]
by Travis Hancock, at the '' Honolulu Museum of Art''; published April 2016; retrieved July 19, 2021
Gallery
File:Lionel Walden (1861-1933) - 1924, 52 x 76 inches, oil on canvas.jpg, ''Hawaiian Fisherman'', oil on canvas painting by Lionel Walden, 1924, Honolulu Museum of Art
File:Lionel Walden (1861-1933) - ca. 1920, ca. 1920, The Torchlight Fishermen, Waikiki.jpg, ''The Torchlight Fishermen, Waikiki'', oil on canvas painting by Lionel Walden, c. 1920, Honolulu Museum of Art
File:Lionel Walden (1861-1933) - 'Luakaha', c. 1916, oil.jpg, ''Luakaha'', oil on canvas painting by Lionel Walden, c. 1916, Honolulu Museum of Art
File:Lionel Walden (1861-1933) - Marine View--Windward Hawaii, ca. 1920, 78 x 117 cm, oil on canvas.jpg, ''Marine View—Windward Hawaii'', ca. 1920, oil on canvas painting by Lionel Walden, 78 x 117 cm., Honolulu Museum of Art
File:Mural by Lionel Walden, c. 1922, Hawaii Theatre, Honolulu, Hawaii.jpg, Mural by Lionel Walden, c. 1922, Hawaii Theatre
The Hawaii Theatre is a historic 1922 theatre in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, located at 1130 Bethel Street, between Hotel and Pauahi Streets, on the edge of Chinatown. It is listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places.
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, Honolulu, Hawaii
File:Lionel Walden's oil on board painting 'Night Fisherman', 10 x 10.5 in..jpg, ''Night Fisherman'', oil on board painting by Lionel Walden
File:Lionel Walden's oil on panel painting 'North Shore, Oahu', c. 1915, 10 x 14 in..jpg, ''North Shore, Oahu'', oil on panel painting by Lionel Walden, c. 1915, 10 x 14 in.
Notes
References
* Ellis, George R. and Marcia Morse, ''A Hawaii Treasury, Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts'', Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 2000, 154, 224–5.
* Forbes, David W., ''Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778–1941'', Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 206–244.
* Forbes, David W., ''He Makana, The Gertrude Mary Joan Damon Haig Collection of Hawaiian Art, Paintings and Prints'', Hawaii State Foundation of Culture and the Arts, 2013, pp. 64–71
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1862 births
1933 deaths
19th-century American painters
19th-century American male artists
20th-century American painters
20th-century American male artists
American expatriates in France
American expatriates in the United Kingdom
American landscape painters
American male painters
American marine artists
Artists from Connecticut
People from Norwich, Connecticut
Volcano School painters