Walter Launt Palmer

Walter Launt Palmer (August 1, 1854 – April 16, 1932) was an American Impressionist painter. Palmer's dad Erastus Dow Palmer was a prominent sculptor, and the family dwelling was frequented by his father's friends, notably Frederic Edwin Church. Palmer began his formal artistic training under portrait painter Charles Loring Elliott, but it was Church, the period's premier landscape artist, who complex tutored the teenage Palmer in landscape painting.

In 1873, Palmer made one of many trips abroad in order to put on an act with Carolus-Duran. It was at this become old that he met one of Carolus-Duran’s extra young students, John Singer Sargent. The artist continued to take frequent and outstretched trips to Europe, and acquired a growing concentration in French Impressionism as with ease as an steadfast attraction to Venetian subjects. When Palmer returned to the United States, he spent most of his grow old in Albany, where artists as soon as William and James Hart, Homer Dodge Martin, and Edward Gay as well as painted. Here, Palmer began painting building interiors, his first significant series of work. He as well as spent some time on the go out of New York City at the Tenth Street Studio Building.

Palmer's most notable works are winter landscape scenes, a tradition he continued from the mid-1880s to the stop of his life. For these accomplishments he has been called the "painter of the American winter." Exhibitions featuring Palmer's put on an act have included Hawthorne Fine Art's A Perfect Solitude: The Art of Walter Launt Palmer (1854–1932) (December 12, 2006 – February 10, 2007) and the Albany Institute of History & Art's Walter Launt Palmer: Painting the Moment (March 28 - August 16, 2015).