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Anne Walker was born on September 20, 1933, in Boston, MA. She attended Smith College where she studied woodcuts with Seong Moy. As a junior in Paris in 1953 she worked at l'Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Montparnasse and, later, in 1955 took p etching with Johnny Friedlaender. Since 1956, Anne Walker has lived in Paris, with frequent trips to the United States. To date, she has made more than 330 plates, as well as a number of fine-press books illustrated with etchings. In 1986, she began to do paintings using gouache combined with pastel, a technique which has predominated in her work since then. She also makes painted books, either one-of-a-kind or in vey limited series to accompany texts by poets whom she admires.
1956 Decordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine Night Thoughts’ Edward Kessler ‘Six Haikai’ ‘The Sloth’s Garden’ ‘Morning Notebook’ As you approach Anne Walker’s etching, you feel a desire to find for them a correspondence with nature. An involuntary displacement occurs: you imagine yourself somewhere else in a world, which becomes forest undergrowth amidst leafy boughs, in spring or autumn and it pleasant to be there. Why then, upon looking more closely, does this analogy begin to waver? Isn’t there foliage? Yes, but even now earth and sky change places and merge into one another. And facing this accumulation of leaves, which divides itself as if reflected in the mirror of a non-existent lake, it seems wiser to lay aside any immediate naturalistic references. To be sure, Anne Walker has memories of the clearings, branches, and streams of the New England where she grew up. She is fascinated by the forms to be found in nature and finds them not only beautiful but also astonishing. Even as a child she drew them. And since coming to France she has missed the landscape of her native America with a nostalgia that is both sweet and sharp. But if this realm of nature, which once held a privileged place in her vision, has been a source for her imaginary world, there it has undergone multiple transmutations and doesn’t seem to have retained its former importance. For Anne Walker, these leafed surfaces – bronzed, green
and bluish – whose forms sometimes tend to pile up and sometimes
to disperse themselves, here in an ascending movement and there
descending, make up a reality peculiar to her. They speak of a
world, her own, that builds up within a state of profusion where
vegetal order is presence of being – through mastery of a
double technique, aquatint and etching. And if, to her name prints,
Anne Walker sometimes looks for sonorous affinities in the Indian
names of her country it is to accentuate the incantation of a poetic
rhythm, which shifts from etching to etching. |
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