Edith Walker Oliver, Sponge Exchange, Tarpon Springs, Fla, watercolor, 8 1/4 by 11 1/2 inches. Signed lower right, E. Walker, 34.
Edith Walker had a studio in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago, before first coming to St. Augustine in the winter of 1933 with her mother Eleanor Walker, who wrote a column, What A Woman Sees, for the Chicago Daily News. Edith Walker met St. Augustine businessman Robert Oliver and the couple were married in St. Augustine in 1935.
Edith Walker Oliver, Llambia House, St. Augustine, watercolor, 8 1/4 by 11 1/2 inches. Signed lower right, Edith Walker Oliver, 1938.
Known for her dry point etchings, Edith Walker Oliver also worked in oil and watercolor. In 1936 she was appointed chairman, State of Florida, for National Arts Week. An active member of the St. Augustine Arts Club for the next twenty years, Oliver spent her summers at Hager Park just west of Grand Rapids, near Lake Michigan, and winters in St. Augustine, until her death in St. Augustine in 1979.
Edith Walker Oliver, Fatio House, St. Augustine, watercolor, 11 by 8 1/4 inches. Signed and titled verso.
Born: 1889, Chicago, Illinois. Died: 1979, St. Augustine. Education: Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan, Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Membership: St. Augustine Arts Club. Exhibits: St. Augustine Arts Club, March 1933; St. Augustine Arts Club, Woman’s Exchange, Burt House, January 1934; St. Augustine Arts Club, Art Mart, Old Slave Market, Plaza, February 1934; Florida Federation of Art Annual, St Petersburg Federal Gallery, February 1937, Castle in Spain; SAAC, February 1937; SAAC, January-March 1938; SAAC, January-March 1939; SAAC, February 1945, watercolor, Bruton Paish Church-Williamsburg-Va.; SAAA, Exchange Bank of St. Augustine, February 1956, Captive Island; Artists’ Guild of St. Augustine, farewell exhibit, January 1957; Arts Fair, Lake Front Park, St. Joseph, Michigan, July 1963.
Edith Walker Oliver, untitled, St. Augustine, mixed media, 17 by 23 inches. Signed and dated lower right, Edith Oliver 52.
