TitleWood Nymph
Artist
Henry Oliver Walker
(1843 - 1929)
Date1901
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 17 1/2 × 25 in.
Framed: 32 1/4 × 30 3/4 × 2 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "Henry Oliver Walker/1901"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1365-P
Label TextWood Nymph is typical of the allegorical figures that populate Walker’s murals, and that were strongly influenced by the French artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. In a 1906 letter to the Academy he stressed the painting’s undefined subject: “The little figure I sent never had any name. I think it might be called ‘Wood Nymph.’”
