Index
Abstraction, in Walker’s art, 164, 167-68
Agents, for Walker paintings. See Bland, Harry; Blessing’s; Courtenay’s
Bookstore; Galería C. D. Fredericks y Davis; Green, Robert
Stanley; Lannau’s Art Store; Quimby and Co.; Rowlinski, Robert;
Schlaus, William; Young, Henry
Aiken, Mary Elizabeth (mother of W. A. Walker), 41-44
Aiken, S.C., 76
Alabama, plantation wage systems in, 152-53
Allen, James, plantation of, 55
Antoine’s Restaurant, New Orleans, 90
Arden, N.C., 57, 76, 81, 89, 96, 125, 128-30
Arsenecker Key, Fla., 86
Artist’s Association of New Orleans, 101
Asheville, N.C., 123-24
Ashley River, 54, 134
Astor Library, N.Y., 143
Atlantic Savings Bank, Charleston, 138
Atmosphere, in Walker paintings, 164
Augusta, Ga., 68, 70
Bahia Honda Bridge, Fla., 84
Baltimore: discussed, 56-57; Walker in, as a child, 41;
mentioned, 36
Bamboo, 70, 78
Barbizon painters, 157
Baruch, Bernard, 153
Baton Rouge, La., 120
Battery, at Charleston, 32, 53
Baxter, Hiram, 81
Bayou boats, 176
Beale, Charles, 81, 125
Beale, Maria, 125
Beaucatcher Knob, N.C., 124
Beauregard, General P. G. T., 48-49
Bell, Alexander Graham, 70
Bemiss, Amy, 142
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Bierstadt, Albert, 156
Biloxi, Miss., 121, 186
Bingham, George, 39
Blanchard, Blanche, 96, 98, 143
Blanchard, Mrs. James Gallier, 98
Blanchard, Miss Virginia, 98
Bland Gallery, 153
Bland, Harry, 40
Bleak House, 59
Blessing’s Art Gallery, Baltimore, 90
Blythe, David C., 141
Bogen, Reverend Joseph, 121
Bond, Colonel, 137
Bonner, Sherwood, 144, 148
Boston Athenaeum, 49
Boudin, E., 168
Boyce & Company, cotton factories in Charleston, 41
Boyle, Charles Wellington, 98, 142
Boyle, Virginia Frazer, 148
Bradfield, John Jenkins, 120
Bradfield, John Orr, 120
Bradley, Horace, 146
Brickell’s trading store, Fla., 84
Buchser, Frank, 141
Buck, William, 92, 142, 156
Bufford, J. H., 146
Bull Run, First, battle of, 48
Burton, Mrs. E. Milby, 54
Cabin scenes, 34, 39, 63, 70, 72, 88, 92, 129
Cable, George Washington, 100, 148, 157
Café Oriental, Havana, 61
Calhoun, John, 55
Camden, S.C., 76
Camera, 170, 185 See also Photograph
Camera Club of Hampton Institute, 150
Cameron, John, 143
Camp Hampton, S.C., 48
Cards, playing, painted by Walker, 48
Cards Sound, Arsenecker Key, Fla., 86
Carolina Art Association, 50, 98
Carrere, John M., 76
Carrollton, La., 96
Catlin, George, 39
Champlin Press, Columbus, Ohio, 151
Chandler, Miss Emma, 88
Charleston Market, 53
Charleston, S.C., 41-55, passim; 129
Chicago Fair, 1893, 150. See also Columbian Exposition
Chromolithography, 160
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Church, Frederick Edwin, 155
Churches: Episcopal, Pensacola, 88; St. Paul’s Episcopal, Baltimore,
56; First Presbyterian, Augusta, 70; Presbyterian, Miami, 86;
St. Patrick’s Catholic, Augusta, 70
Church Street, Charleston, 41
Citadel, The, military academy, 134
Civil War, 39, 68, 88, 120
Clague, Richard, 96, 156
Clark’s Photograph Shop, 92, 96
Clements, George H., 65
Clemens, Samuel, visit of, to New Orleans, 148
Clemson, S.C., 55
Cleveland, Grover, 123
Clients, for Walker paintings, 34, 39, 57, 68, 72, 123, 125
Clonney, James Goodwyn, 141
Cocoanut Grove, Fla., 84
Collins, W. B., 61
Color, as treated by Walker, 130, 146, 164
Columbian Exposition, 53, 113
Commissions, for major paintings, 39, 176
Cotton, brown seed, 54
Cotton factory, Augusta, 68
Cotton mills, 68
Cotton plantations. See Plantations
Coulon, George D., 100-101, 142, 156
Courbet, Gustave, 168
Courtenay’s Book Store, 46, 53
Covington, La., 96
“Cowboys in the Borderlands,” painting
by Thomas Eakins, 39
Cox, Walter, 100, 148
Crane, Stephen, 157
Cranford Library, 70
Cre-Mo-Sage Shop, 72
Cruikshank, George, 60
Crustaceans, paintings of, 36
Cuba, 61-65
Cuisine: Antoine’s Restaurant, New Orleans,
90; at Poydras Market, 92; at Jacksonville, 78
Cumberland Island, 78
Cummings Road, Augusta, 68
Cup and Saucer Club, New Orleans, 100
Currier and Ives, 39, 117, 143-44, 156, 160
Darktown Comics, 144
Davis, Jefferson, 49
Davis, Theodore Russel, 146
Daytona, Fla., 79
De Bow, James, 50
Deep South, 34, 123, 157
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De Lesseps, Charles, 142
Delta, Miss., 31, 120, 157
Dickens, Charles, 59-60, 148
Diehl, Miss Katie, 121
Diehl, C. Louis, 81
Dixie, 31. See also Old South
Dooley, Mrs. James H., 144
Drown, W. Staples, 76
Dumaine Street, New Orleans, 39
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 150
Dusseldorf “School,” 36, 65, 141
Eagle, ship to Cuba, 61
Eakins, Thomas, 39
École des Beaux Arts, 157
Edisto Island, S.C., 53, 113, 129, 152, 171
English, Charleston, influenced by the, 44
Europe, Walker’s trip to, 65
Everglades, 86
Fagan, Dickens character, 60
Fanti (tribal name), 170
Ferguson, General Samuel W., 36, 120
Ferguson, “Miss Percy,” 36, 120, 123
Ferguson Plantation, 120
Fish, paintings of, 36, 81-82, 186
Fithian, F. L., 144
Flagler, Henry M., 76, 84
Flat Rock, N.C., 124
Fletcher’s Stop, N.C., 124
Flint, Jane, 41
Florence, compared to Charleston by Thomas Sully, 42
Florida, East Coast, 70, 78, 82, 84, 86, 88
Florida, West Coast, 86
Flower studies, 154
Forbes, Edwin, 141
Fort Fisher, N.C., 49
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., 86
Fort Macomb, La., 100
Fort Pickens, Fla., 88
Fort Sumter, Charleston: Battle of, 49; drawing of, 156
Fort Walton, Fla., 186
Foster, Stephen Collins, 139
Frazer, Charles, 42
Fremaux, Leon J., 142
French Broad River, N.C., 123
Frenzeny, P., 142
Frost, A. B., 144
Galería C. D. Fredericks y Davis, Havana, 61
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Gamble, James Newton, of Proctor and Gamble, 81
Gamotis, Alphonse, 101
Genin, John, 156
Genre paintings, 34, 36, 39-40, 49, 57, 63, 100, 169
Georgia Historical Society, 72
Georgian city, Charleston as a, 44
German, Robert S., 76
Gerónimo, the Chiricahua Apache, 88
Ghost of Guir House, The, 125
Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, 150
(now Gibbes Museum of Art)
Gilbert’s Bar, Fla., 82
Girault, L. C., 101
Giroux, Claudius, 98
Glen, Wilkens, at Baltimore, 56
Gleyre, in Paris, 156
Gottschalk, Edward Moreau, 139
Grady, Henry, 57
“The Grandissimes,” 148
Grant’s Canal, 120
Grapefruit trees, 72
“Grasshopper on a Sweet Potato Vine, The,”
cantata by Inness Randolf, 59
Great Britain, in cotton industry, 41
Green, Robert Stanley, 36, 92, 117, 129;
art collection, 46, 169
Greenville, Miss., 36, 120
Gregg, C. C., 81
Grey, Thomas, 152
Groves, W. E., art collection, 142
Gulf Coast, 128
Gulla (also Gullah, tribal name), 65, 170
Gutherz, Suzanne, 144
Halifax River, Fla., 81
Hampton Institute, 150
Hampton, Wade, 46, 169
Harris, Joel Chandler, 57, 144
Hart’s South Carolina battery, 48
Hausa (tribal name), 170
Havana, Cuba, 61-65
Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 41, 50
Heade, Martin J., 76, 154, 165
Hearn, Lafcadio, 148, 157
Hebel, Ianthe Bond, 81
Hendersonville, N.C., 124
Henry, Edward Lamson, 141, 143
Herring, J. F., 46, 67, 92, 169
Heyward, Dubose, 65
Highlanders, 130
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Hillsboro Inlet, Fla., 84
Hillsboro River, Fla., 83
Homer, Winslow, 142, 154
Hominy Creek, 124
Hopkins, Aristide, 92, 121
Horatio Alger, 36
Hotels: Arden Park Lodge, Arden, N.C., 125; Barcelona, St. Augustine, 76; Battery Park, Asheville, N.C., 123; Biltmore House, N.C.,
123; Bonnie Crest Inn, N.C., 123; Charleston Hotel, 48; City at
Pensacola, 88; DeSoto, Savannah, 72; Duval, Jacksonville, 78; Eagle, Asheville, N.C., 70; Escambia, Pensacola, 88; Florida House,
76, 88; Fort George, near Jacksonville, 78; Fort Pierce, Fla., 84;
Haywood White Sulphur Springs, N.C., 123; Hotel Royal, New
Orleans, 90, 150; Kyser, Pensacola, 88; Magnolia, Biloxi, 121, 128;
Magnolia, St. Augustine, 76; Mills House, Charleston, 48; Pulaski
House, Savannah, 72; Royal Palm, Miami, 84; San Sebastian, Fla.,
84; Santa Rosa, Pensacola, 88; Valencia, St. Augustine, 76
Hovendon, Thomas, 141
Howe, Edgar Watson, 157
Hunting dogs, 36
Implements, agricultural, 34, 171
Indian, American, 39. See also Gerónimo,
Seminole Indians
Indian River, Fla., 82, 84, 86
Isle of Palms, S.C., 129
Jack O’Doone, 125
Jackson, Stonewall, 49
Jacksonville, Fla., 76
Johnson, Eastman, 141
Johnson and Johnson, Surgical Supplies,
lithograph published for, 161
Julien, studio of, in Paris, 156-57
Julio, Everett D. B., 92, 96, 142, 156-57
Jupiter Inlet, Fla., 83
Kemble, E. W., 144
Key, Lieutenant John R., 49
Key West, Fla., 84
King, C. H., 152-53
King, Edward, 123
Kingston, Ga., 96
King Street, in Charleston, 53
Knight’s Key Bridge, Fla., 84
Lake Pontchartrain, La., 96
Lake Worth, Fla., 83
Lake Wyman, Fla., 86
Langtry, George, 92
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Lanneau’s Art Store, 53
Lantana, Fla., 84
Lanterns on the Levee, 121
Lee, Robert E., 48-49
Le Sassier, Charles, 141
Levees, at New Orleans, 117
Lighthouses: Alligator Reef, 86; Cape Florida Old Light, 86; Fowey
Rock Light, 86; Jupiter’s, 86; Mosquito Inlet, 86; Ponce Lighthouse, 86
Linquist, Mr., 138
Lithograph, 161
Literature, Southern, 32, 39, 57, 88, 100, 144, 148, 157
Livingston, Edward, 98, 101
Louisville College of Pharmacy, 81
Louisville, Ky., 129
McClelland, General, 48
McKinley, President William, 70
Magnolia Gardens, S.C., 54
Malchus, J., 141
Mandeville, La., 96
Mandingo, 170
Market, for Walker paintings, 31;
See also Agents, Clients
Mark Twain, 144
Masonic Temple Hall, Baltimore, 56
Matthews, Essie Collins, 151
Maurer, Louis, 143
Meeker, Joseph Rusling, 156
Merrill, F. T., 141
Mes Pensires, 49
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 150
Miami, Fla., 81, 86
Mifflin, Lloyd, 146
Millet, Jean François, 32, 34
Mitchel, Lottie, 90
Moise, J., 101
Molinary, Andres, 96, 98, 100, 142, 156
Monkey Dance, 128
Monroe, Commodore Ralph, 84
Montgomery Advertiser, 153
Moore, Mrs. Charles, 80
Mosquito Inlet, Fla., 79
Mount Pisgah, N.C., 124, 166
Mount, William Sidney, 141
Mountaineers, 130
Murfree, Mary Noailles, 148
Myers, Frankie, 48
Mylne, Elizabeth (first wife of J. F. Walker), 41
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Narres Cut, Fla., 86
Natchez, Miss., 120
National Academy, 49
Naturalism, 39, 130, 134, 154, 156, 167-69
Naturalist, Walker as a, 83, 154
Nature studies, 36, 130, 167
Negro life, as painted by Walker, 185
New Orleans, La., 90-101
New River, Fla., 86
New Smyrna, Fla., 78, 80, 84
New South, 31, 34, 41, 57, 72, 139
Norieri, August, 100, 142, 156
O’Conner, Miss M. D., 54
Oilette, 26, 44, 53, 105, 166
Old South, 27, 34, 36, 57, 68, 72
Orian, yacht, 82, 84, 86
Our Mutual Friends, Charles Dickens, 59
Pablo Beach, Fla., 78
Pacetti, Bartolo, 79
Pacetti, Dr., at St. Augustine, 78
Pacetti, Gomersinde, 13, 78, 81, 87
Pacetti House, 80-81, 89, 134, 193
Pacetti, Martha, 79
Pacetti, Netti, 81, 129
Page, Thomas Nelson, 148
Palmer, Fanny, 143, 196
Pemberton, John, 141
Pensacola, Fla., 16, 86, 88, 142, 186, 193
Perelli, August, 92
Peretti, Achille, 101
Percy, Leroy, 120
Percy, William Alexander, 121
Peychaud and Garcia, New Orleans printers, 142
Photography, influence of, 44, 50, 53, 55, 92, 96. See also Camera
Pickwick Papers, 59
Pinckney, Captain C. C., 14, 54, 128
Piper, Colonel, 89
Plantation life, as seen by Walker, 34, 176
Plantation, wage systems of, 153
Plantation scenes, 34, 40, 55, 176
Planters Loan and Savings Bank, Augusta, 70, 138
Poets, compared to Walker, 50
Poincy, Paul, 101, 156
Ponce de Leon Lighthouse Reservation, 79
Ponce Park, Fla., 78-79, 81, 86, 88, 121, 125, 128-29, 137-38
Porte Crayon. See David Hunter Strother, 146
Portraits: of people, 32, 34, 36, 39, 100;
of dogs, 36, 169; of horses, 169
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Poydras Market, New Orleans, 92
Primitivism, 154, 169
Quimby and Company, photographers in Charleston, 44, 53
Railroads: Bee Line, 88; Florida East Coast, 121; hotels connected
with, 60; Pensacola Railroad Company, 88, 205; South Carolina
and Central, 68; South Carolina Railroad, 68; Southern Railroad,
124; mentioned, 72
Randolf, Inness, 57
Randall, James Ryder, 70
Reconstruction, 31, 152, 202
Remington, Frederic, 39, 120
Resort Hotels: Bon Air Hotel, Augusta, 36, 42;
Ponce de Leon, 38, 40: See also Hotels
Resorts, 31, 34
Rhodes, Mr., 153
Rice, 26, 32, 54, 176
Richmond, Va., 27, 47, 125
Robertson, John R., 56
Roseland, Harry, 141
Rowlinski, Robert, 72
Royal Street, New Orleans, 39
Runnymede, S.C., 14, 54-55, 72, 198
Russell, C. H., 39, 186
Russell, Irwin, 144, 146
Ryan, Abram J., 70
St. Augustine, Fla., 70, 72, 76, 78-79
St. Bernard Parish, La., 94, 96, 218
St. John’s River, 76, 78, 86, 195, 218
St. Louis World’s Fair, 113, 218
St. Lucie River, Fla., 84, 86
St. Marks, Fla., 88
St. Michael’s Place, Charleston, 138
Sallie, Walker’s fishing ketch, 59
Santa Rosa Island, Fla., 88
Santa Ysabel, Cuba, 61-62
Savannah, Ga., 31, 70, 200-201
Savannah River, 68, 70
Schlaus, William, 65, 129
Sea Islands, of Georgia, 78
Sea Islands, of South Carolina, 53
Seavy, George W., 76
Secret of the Earth, The, 125
Seebold’s Art Gallery, New Orleans, 90
Seminole Indians, 86
Seven Pines, battle of, 21
Sevilla Square, Pensacola, 88
Sexauer Restaurant, Pensacola, 88
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Shapliegh, Frank H., 76
Sheppard, William Ludlow, 49
Sherman, General W. T., 53, 68
Ship Island, Miss., 121
Shufford, Mrs. E. L., 125
Simms, William Gilmore, 50, 146
Smith, Marshall, 96, 98, 156
Smith, William Prescott, 56
Smyzer’s, Augusta, Ga., 68
Snake River, Fla., 84
South Carolina Historical Society, 142, 191, 206-07
Southern Art Union, New Orleans, 98, 100, 148
Spanish Fort, 96
Sparks, Ed, 88
Spatial effects, in Walker’s paintings, 168
Sport, 31, 36, 80-81
Stagecoach, 124
Standard Photo Supply Co., Ltd., New Orleans, 92, 124
State Street, Charleston, 19, 41
Steamboats, 58, 60-61, 86, 117, 176
Still-life paintings, 36, 49, 65, 168
Strother, David Hunter, 146, 205
Stuart, Ruth McEnery, 157
Sullivan’s Island, S.C., 54, 103, 137, 171, 198
Sully, Thomas, 42
Summerville, Ga., 68, 70, 123, 125
Sutro, Ottilie, 56
Sutro, Otto, 56
Suwannee River, 78
Swannonoa River, N.C., 123
Taft, William Howard, 70
Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliams, 143
Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 141
Taylor, James E., 146, 195
Telfair Academy, Savannah, 15, 72, 196
Tennent, T.R., 96, 100-101
“The Hill,” Augusta, Ga., 68
Three Oaks, Augusta, Ga., 68
Timrod, Henry, 50
Tobin, Captain John, 117
Toledano Street, New Orleans, 90, 148
Topographical sketches, 186
Trompe l’oeil, 123, 168-69
Troye, Edward, 169
Tugby, Thomas, 76
Vanderlyn, John, 113
Vargas, Francisco, 142, 207
Viavant, Achille, 98
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Vicksburg, Miss., 120
Victorian taste, 36, 186
Volck, Dr. A. J., 56
Walker, John Falls, 41, 46
Walker, Reverend George, 92
Walker, W. A., as a cartographer and draftsman, 48; childhood, 41-42,
44; in the Civil War, 41-42, 46, 49, 53; death of, 138; as a francophile,
157; as an intimist of the outdoors, 168; loss of hearing, 129; old age
of, 127-29, 134; as a poet, 44, 49-50; sense of humor of, 168
Waud, Alfred and William, 146, 207
Warren County, Miss., 120
Washington County, Miss., 120
Way, A. J. H., 142
Wednesday Club, Baltimore, 49, 56-59, 90, 192
Weld, Stephen Minot, W. M. Weld Company, Lewiston, Maine, 81
Western artists, 39
Whitehead, Charles E., 142
Wikstrom, Bror Anders, 96, 100, 142
Williams, C. Milo, 98-99
Willow Glenn Plantation, 120
Wilson, Mrs. Ada, 16, 88, 193
Wilson, Woodrow, 70, 123
Wood, Thomas Waterman, 141
Woodward, Ellsworth, 142
Woodward, William, 142
Worth, Thomas, 144
Young, Henry, 129
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Self-Portrait
L.l.: W. A. Walker, Feb. 1914
Oil on board, 8¾ x 8½ inches
Courtesy Mrs. George Archie Martin,
Columbia, South Carolina
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