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Art by American women constitutes eight percent of the Terra's collection and includes oil and watercolor paintings, pastels, and various types of prints. (updated 2/2019, following deaccessions)
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Martha Walter
Date: 1910
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1999.143
Text Entries: Born in Philadelphia, Walter began her training as an enthusiastic student of painter William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; she would emulate his impasto technique and impressionist's interest in the movement of light and shadow throughout her career. Like Mary Fairchild MacMonnies, Walter received a scholarship to study in Europe and then extended her stay for several years, enrolling at ateliers such as the Academie Julian and submitting work to the annual Paris Salon exhibitions. She shared a Paris studio with several other American women art students and has depicted herself amid such a group in the mirror at the back of the crémerie. This diminutive work thus becomes a complicated game of who is watching whom, involving the artist and her compatriots, their reflections, the nonchalant French couple and the viewer.