Lionel Walden

Lionel Walden was born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1861. He first became interested in art in Minnesota, where the family moved when his father became rector of an Episcopal Church there. As a young man, Walden moved to Paris where he studied painting with Carolus-Duran. Walden received medals from the Paris Salon and was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honor. He visited to Hawaii in 1911 and several times thereafter. Walden died in Chantilly, France in 1933.

According to David H. Forbes, author of Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941, Lionel Walden "was the finest seascape painter to work in Hawaii". The Brooklyn Museum, the Henry Art Gallery (University of Washington, Seattle), the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Musée d'Orsay are among the public collections holding works by Lionel Walden.

References

• Ellis, George R. and Marcia Morse, A Hawaii Treasury, Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 2000, 154, 224-5.
• Forbes, David W., Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 206-244.

Gallery

Hawaiian Fisherman, oil on canvas painting by Lionel Walden, 1924, Honolulu Academy of Arts	The Torchlight Fishermen, Waikiki, oil on canvas painting by Lionel Walden, c. 1920, Honolulu Academy of Arts	Luakaha, oil on canvas painting by Lionel Walden, c. 1916, Honolulu Academy of Arts	Marine View--Windward Hawaii, ca. 1920, oil on canvas painting by Lionel Walden, 78 x 117 cm., Honolulu Academy of Arts
Mural by Lionel Walden, c. 1922, Hawaii Theatre, Honolulu, Hawaii	Night Fisherman, oil on board painting by Lionel Walden	North Shore, Oahu, oil on panel painting by Lionel Walden, c. 1915, 10 x 14 in.

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