Scenes like
Mid-Winter Landscape are common in Emile Walter's oeuvre and
reflect his affinity with Impressionism. A landscape painter,
Walters particularly enjoyed the scenery of central
Pennsylvania. He later specialized in views of Iceland (where
he lived for a time), Greenland, and the Arctic regions. The
Museum received four paintings by Emile Walters from the estate
of Margery Wolf Kuhn in 1988
Born in Winnipeg, Ontario, Canada, Walters moved to the United
States in 1898. He studied at Chicago's Art Institute, the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Tiffany
Foundation. Exhibited widely, he received prizes from the Art
Institute and the National Academy of Design, as well as the Order
of the Falcon from King Christian of Denmark. Walters was a
painting instructor for summer sessions at The Pennsylvania State
University from 1922 to 1934, where he taught Hobson Pittman.
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