William Aiken Walker

1839 — 1921

US painter (1839-1921)

William Aiken Walker was an American artist best known for genre paintings of African-American sharecroppers. He also documented the American Civil War era during his service in the Confederate Army.

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Works

Dollarfish and Sheepshead 1860

Dollarfish and Sheepshead

William Aiken Walker Museum of Fine Arts Boston
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Sharecroppers Gathered in the Yard 1895

Sharecroppers Gathered in the Yard

William Aiken Walker
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Black Man Picking Cotton

William Aiken Walker Yale University Art Gallery
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Cotton Pickers

William Aiken Walker Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Levee at New Orleans

William Aiken Walker Gilcrease Museum
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Wash Day

William Aiken Walker Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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1883

A Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi

William Aiken Walker Gilcrease Museum
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1885

Black Woman Carrying Basket of Cotton

William Aiken Walker Yale University Art Gallery
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