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Ione Gaul Walker

Dead Trees in a Storm

      Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Ione Gaul was the daughter of Harvey Bartlett Gaul, a prominent composer, music critic and lecturer in whose name an annual prize is awarded for composition, currently administered by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.  She was an art student at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and then moved to New York where she studied dance with Ruth St. Denis.  In 1936 she married Hudson D. Walker, a wealthy art historian, and from 1936 to 1940 the couple operated the Hudson D. Walker Gallery on 57th Street where they showed the works of Marsden Hartley, Mervyn Jules, Joseph Hirsch and Harry Sternberg among others.

     Mrs. Walker exhibited her own paintings at the Bertha Shaefer Gallery in New York and at the Provinctown Art Museum in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 1967 she and her husband helped found the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown which provides fellowships for emerging writers and artists. She was also a founder of the Provincetown Symphony Society and served as its president from 1954 to 1958.

​     This fine example of her work was deaccessioned from the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield , Massachusetts.

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