Horatio Walker (New York/Ontario, 1858-1938) watercolor painting depicting three cows gathered under the shade of trees with rural landscape and a small creek flowing in the background. Signed "Horatio Walker 1903". Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours paper label with title and artist's information, en verso. Housed in a gilt Louis XIV style frame. Sight: 16 1/4" H x 21 1/4" W. Framed: 26 1/2" H x 32" W. Biography (adapted from R. H. Love Galleries): Born in Canada, Horatio Walker was artistically trained in England and France before becoming an active member of the Rochester Art Club, serving as its secretary and, later, its president. He was known for his genre paintings of cattle in the Barbizon School tradition. Walker exhibited regularly at the Boston Art Club, the Art Institute of Chicago, and others. He was awarded medals at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889, the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, the Pan-American Exposition in 1901, the St. Louis Universal Exposition in 1904, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. Walker's work "The First Snow" occupies the permanent collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition, frame with minor repair to a couple carved gilt areas.