Stuart Walker (American, –1940)

Timeline

1904
Born Febuary 25th, Paint Lick, Kentucky, Family moves to Indiana.
1919
Joins the Navy at age 15. Lies about his age to enlist
1920
Becomes ill with a strep infection, which turns into rheumatic fever and weakens his heart. He is discharged from the United States Navy.
1922–1923
Studies at the John Herron Institute in Indianapolis; Studies with illustrator Frank Schoonover in Wilmington, Delaware
1924
Moves to Albuquerque
1925
Attends art classes at the University of New Mexico
1929
Operates a commercial art studio (Willis Studio) with fellow artist Brooks Willis.
Becomes president of Art League of New Mexico and provides design work for the league’s projects.
Plays drums in dance band, the “Collegians”
Paints a mural with fellow artist Brooks Willis at the Nob Hill Drugstore in Albuquerque
1931
Marries Elizabeth Lee Adams
1931
William Lumpkins builds Walker an art studio in back of his home at 304 S. Dartmouth
1933–1934
Produces sketches and paintings for Public Works Art Project; Joins Willis again in completing a mural for the Bernalillo County Courthouse
1935
Completes first non-objective painting, Composition N.
1938
Joins Transcendental Painting Group
1939
Walker is hospitalized
1939
Walker is released from hospital
1940
Dies in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Exhibitions

1998
Vision and Spirit, The Transcendental Painting Group, Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico
1997
Vision and Spirit, The Transcendental Painting Group, Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1996
Abstraction Across America, 1934-1946, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, New York
1969
Dorothea Whitcraft Memorial Exhibition, Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1967
Albuquerque’s First Nonrepresentational Paintings, Jonson Gallery, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1950
Group Show, Jonson Gallery, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1946
A LOAN EXHIBITION From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Jonson, Presented by The Art League of New Mexico, Fine Arts Building Gallery, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1946
A LOAN EXHIBITION From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Jonson, Presented by The Art League of New Mexico, Art Gallery, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1941
Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery, California
1940
Memorial Exhibition, Art Gallery, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe
1940
Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Stuart Walker, The University
1940
Transcendental Painting Group, Guggenheim Museum, New York
1939
Transcendental Painting Group Golden Gate International Exhibition, San Francisco, California
1939
New York World’s Fair, New York, New York
1939
Transcendental Painting Group, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1939
Albuquerque Artist’s Show, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1938
Transcendental Painting Group, New Mexico Museum of Fine Art
1938
Southwestern Art, Seattle
1937
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition 1917-1937, School of American Research, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1937
Albuquerque Art League Show, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1936
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
1936
Albuquerque Art League Show, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1935
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1935
Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition of Painters and Sculptors of the Southwest, Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico, School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1935
American Paintings & Sculpture, Forty-Sixth Annual Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1935
Southwestern Artists, Albuquerque Art League, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1935
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
1934
Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) Exhibition, Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1933
Annual Exhibition by Painters and Sculptors of the Southwest, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1933
Two Man Show with Brooks Willis, Franciscan Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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