Galerie Paul Prouté

Anne Walker studied woodcut at Smith College in Northampton. In Paris, she attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse, and in 1955, she began learning etching in Johnny Friedlaender’s studio. She settled permanently in the capital in 1956. Passionate about color, Anne Walker moved away from woodcut in 1968 to devote herself to etching and aquatint. Her body of print work includes more than 330 color plates and a number of artists’ books featuring prints. Beginning in 1986, she began working on gouache pieces enhanced with pastel. She continues to explore this technique today, creating works that prioritize atmosphere and light effects over drawing. She also creates painted books as unique pieces or in very limited editions to illustrate poems by Butor, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Dickinson. Prestigious libraries such as the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the New York Public Library hold copies of her illustrated books. Since the 1960s, Anne Walker’s work has been featured in group exhibitions, including the Salon d’Automne, and in solo exhibitions in Europe, the United States, and Australia.