CHARLES H. WALTHER (American, 1879 - 1937). In Memory, 1915, Oil on paperboard. Signed and dated lower left hand corner. Verso titled and signed. Unframed.
. - 16 x 13 inches Estimate $1,000-1,500
About Charles Walther: In Maryland, early modernist abstraction had its first stirrings in the paintings of Charles H. Walther (1879-1937) not long after it evolved from the Parisian ateliers of Picasso and Braque. Although the Baltimore artist, who had first begun teaching at the Maryland Institute in 1906, was experimenting with Fauve and Cubist-style paintings as early as 1914, it was not until 1928 that his modernist ideas cost him the teaching post he had filled for 25 years. By then, Walther was a leading proponent of modernism and had a following among the younger painters, many of whom he had taught and who also shared his love of non-representational art.
