Walter Pashko

Walter Pashko, American, 1930–2006

"Walter Pashko studied painting in Hartford during the heyday of Chick Austin who made broadminded art, especially Surrealism, a good strength of the Wadsworth Atheneum. The G.I. Bill enabled him to go to Mexico City where he sought out artists who could tutor him the techniques of fresco and mosaic. During his years there, he also bookish how to make prints. Upon his compensation to America, he found a job at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as an co-conspirator to the printmaking instructor. Pashko was soon promoted to lead learned when his superintendent retired. He remained at the School for higher than thirty years until a slip prompted him to retire in the yet to be 1990s. Though he taught printmaking, Pashko regarded himself primarily as a painter and draftsman. He remained lively in his retirement, producing the gift works during his before seventies."

Untitled, 2002 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston