Edmund Darch Lewis

Edmund Darch Lewis

Edmund Darch Lewis

Edmund Darch Lewis

Edmund Darch Lewis

Edmund Darch Lewis

Edmund Darch Lewis

Edmund Darch Lewis (1835-1910) was an American landscape painter known for his prolific style and marine oils and watercolors. Lewis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a well-to-do family. He started training at age 15 with German-born Paul Weber (1823–1916) of the Hudson River School. At age 19 he exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and was elected an Associate of the Academy at age 24.

Lewis' early work in oil, because of his excellent training, was precocious and is considered by some collectors to be superior to his later work. He traveled throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, painting river scenes, and for two decades he traveled to the White Mountains and painted landscapes of mountains, rivers, and lakes. 

He made extensive marine paintings throughout New England, becoming a prolific and successful artist. His work was appreciated because of the luminosity of their subjects. Because of this lively and glowing work, he is considered to be among the Luminist painters of the Hudson River School.

Martha Walter

A Philadelphia native, Martha Walter (1875-1976) studied art at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art from 1895–98 and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. She was taught by William Merritt Chase. She won the school's Toppan Prize and Cresson Traveling Scholarship. In 1909 also she won the school's Mary Smith Prize for the best painting by a resident female artist. On her scholarship she traveled to Spain Italy, the Netherlands and France. In France she received tuition from Rene Menard and Lucien Simon at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.

She went on to teach art at Chase's New York School of Art.

Her estate was purchased in the late 1960s by the David David Gallery of Philadelphia.

Martha Walter

Martha Walter

Martha Walter

Martha Walter

Martha Walter

Martha Walter