Lionel Walden (May 22, 1862WALDEN, Lionel
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–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

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. In around 1893–97, Walden was in England, living in Falmouth. Paintings of

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are in museums in Cardiff, Paris, and

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. Walden received medals from the

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and was made a Knight of the

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. 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

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, the

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(University of Washington, Seattle), the

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, the

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(Waimea, Hawaii), the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper and the

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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. (

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).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

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.Lionel Walden’s far-flung kin pays a visit and shares family stories
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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,

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,

File:Lionel Walden (1861-1933) - 'Luakaha', c. 1916, oil.jpg, ''Luakaha'', oil on canvas painting by Lionel Walden, c. 1916,

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.,

File:Mural by Lionel Walden, c. 1922, Hawaii Theatre, Honolulu, Hawaii.jpg, Mural by Lionel Walden, c. 1922,

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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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Walden, Lionel 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