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MARTHA WALTER ”PEOPLE IN THE PARK-PARIS” OIL PAINTING - Original oil painting on board by listed artist, Martha Walter (PA, FR, 1875 - 1976), signed lower right and titled on the brass front label ”People in the Park-Paris”. Art measures 10” H x 13.5” W presented in a frame measuring 20.5” H x 24” W x 2” D.   Artist bio: Martha Walter was best known as a painter of colorful beach scenes and landscapes. She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she studied under William Merritt Chase. At his insistence, she entered a number of student competitions and eventually won a prestigious Cresson traveling scholarship in 1908. This award enabled her to travel throughout Europe, where she continued her art education at the Grande Chaumiere and the Academie Julien in Paris. Walter worked well into her nineties, continuing to paint portraits of women and children, beach scenes, gardens and marketplaces. Before her death in 1976, she had exhibited widely, and her works are included in major national and international private and public collections.