NELL WALKER WARNER BIOGRAPHY
Born near Falls City, NE on April 1, 1891, Nell Walker graduated from the Lexington (MO) Women's College in 1910. She then moved to California and graduated from the Los Angeles School of Art & Design in 1916. For four years she taught art at local girl schools and painted backgrounds for silent pictures.
After her marriage in 1920, she traveled in Europe and spent three summers in Cape Ann (MA) where she painted many harbor scenes; however, southern California remained her home. During the 1920s she was art curator of the Tuesday Afternoon Club and further studied locally with Fechin, Werner, and Lauritz. I
In 1945 she wed Emil Shostrom and in 1952 moved north to Carmel, CA where she remained until her death on Nov. 30, 1970. Antony Anderson, art critic of the Los Angeles Times, stated that she was one of the ablest flower painters America has produced. Her work also includes landscapes of California and the New England coast.
Member: Glendale AA; Laguna Beach AA; Artland Club; Academy of Western Painters (LA); Pasadena Society of Artists; SWA; Carmel AA.
Exhibited : Southern Calif. Fair, 1925 (1st prize); Calif. Eisteddfod, 1925 (four gold and silver medals); Tuesday Afternoon Club (Glendal), 1925; Calif. Art Club, 1925-38; West Coast Arts, 1927; Calif. WC Society, 1927-1932; Wilshire Gallery (LA), 1928; Calif. State Fair, 1929 (3rd prize), 1931 (1st prize); Santa Cruz Art League, 1930 (prize); Palos Verdes Public Library, 1931; Women Painters of the West (LA), 1929-48; Foothill Artists (La Canada), 1936; Desert Sun Gallery (Palm Springs), 1937 (solo); City Hall (LA), 1937; Chamber of Commerce (Santa Paula), 1937; GGIE, 1940; Society for Sanity in Art, CPLH, 1945; Artists Guild of America (Carmel), 1955, 1960, 1963 (solos).
Permanent Collection: LACMA.
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