Walt Reed
Walt Reed
Walt Reed is an art historian and author of books on illustration. He is the author of several works on illustration and illustrators including Harold von Schmidt, John Clymer, and Joseph Clement Coll. In 1974, he founded the gallery Illustration House in Westport, Connecticut. His book on Coll, The Magic Pen of Joseph Clement Coll, was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1978...
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I think his prairie paintings are his finest work. He put everything he had into them. It was a kind of recollection of his youth, painting very directly and powerfully.
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more like a prize fighter than an artist.
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I never officially met Mr. Dunn but observed him from afar at the New York Society of Illustrators where he had been their president and I was still an aspiring art student.
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The portraits people will see in the show are from a phase of Dunn's career that most of his fans don't know about. He regularly did portraits of his friends, and a lot of figure painting as well. I think he mainly did it for recreation and didn't charge them for the work, or if he did it was very seldom.