Biography
Walker's Gallery was founded around 1890 by Augustus Joel Walker (1868-1965), art dealer, artists' colourman, frame-maker and fine art publisher and was located at 118 New Bond Street. It was known to have staged the first exhibition of the Seven and Five Society in April 1920. It appears to have existed until the early 1960's with dozens of artists exhibiting there. It was also known in the plural as Walker's Galleries.
It publsished Walker’s Quarterly during the period 1920-32. Each edition was devoted to a monograph on an individual artist or a specific aspect of art. These included David Roberts, Thomas Shotter Boys, John Sell Cotman, William Callow, Henry Holiday, John Fredrick Lewis, John Burgess, Henry Bright, Edward Morison Wimperis, Charles Bentley, Francis Nicholson, Samuel Lucas, James Holland amongst others.
