Lyric Poetry
Henry Oliver Walker
Walker, Henry Oliver Walker was an American figure and mural painter. He was born in Boston in 1843 and studied art under Bonnat in Paris. He opened a salon in New York City, where his ideal figure composi-tions compelled attention because of their poetic beauty, particularly those of "Eros et Musa" and "Musa Regina," which are to be seen in the National Gallery at "Washington. He is better known, however, for his mural decorations, the most important including a series of lunettes representing "Lyric Poetry" in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.: murals in the Minnesota state capitol at St. Paul; and the panel "Wisdom Attained By Learning" in the Appellate Court, New York. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 1902 and of the National Institute of Arts and Letters the same year. He died in 1929.
