Walter’s landscapes are unpeopled, or the people are seen at a distance, and are usually obscured by a layer of paint.
Frank Walter, “Untitled” (n.d.), oil on paper, 6 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (© Kenneth M. It was at the Venice Biennale that Als first became aware of Walter’s work, as he tells us in his curatorial essay.īy Land, Air, Home, and Sea includes more than 30 small landscapes and portraits done in pencil and oil paint on found and discarded materials, such as photographs, cardboard, Polaroid film cartridge boxes, and photographic paper (for a brief time Walter ran a makeshift photo studio in St. The catalogue was published for his exhibition in the national pavilion of Antigua and Barbuda at the 2017 Venice Biennale, which was the first time the country was represented in this important international venue. Beset with visions, Walter chose to spend the last 15 years of his life in seclusion, living in a home he designed and built on a hill in Antigua, surrounded by his writing and art.įor those who wish to know more about Walter, I recommend checking out the website of Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, which gave Walter his first exhibition, as well as getting the highly informative catalogue Frank Walter: The Last Universal Man (Radius, 2017) by Barbara Paca, his most articulate champion. The exhibition By Land, Air, Home, and Sea: The World of Frank Walter at David Zwirner (June 2–July 29, 2022), curated by Hilton Als, is an incomplete introduction to the brilliant biracial Antiguan artist and writer Francis Archibald Wentworth Walter (1926–2009).
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