J. Laurie Wallace

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File:Portrait of J. Laurie Wallace.jpg
G-206. Portrait of J. Laurie Wallace (circa 1883) by Thomas Eakins, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.

John Laurie Wallace (1864–1953) was an Irish-born American painter.

J. Laurie Wallace Studio Commemorative Plaque, 5804 Leavenworth Street, Omaha, Nebraska.

Wallace was born in Garvagh, Ireland. His family immigrated to the United States when he was age 4.

He studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.[1] He posed for several of Eakins's paintings, including The Crucifixion (1880), Arcadia (1883) and The Swimming Hole (1884–85), and for dozens of photographs. In 1881 he became Eakins's assistant.

In 1891, he moved to Omaha, Nebraska to take the position of Director of the Western Art Association.[2] That organization soon failed, but Wallace remained in Omaha, becoming a commissioned portrait painter and professor.[2] One of the portraits Wallace is known to have completed was of George W. Lininger, the owner of an extensive art collection and a private art gallery in Omaha that he routinely opened to the public at no charge.[3] The portrait of Lininger hung in Lininger's art gallery until it was closed and the contents sold in the late 1920s.

He died in Omaha, Nebraska in 1953, at the age of 89, and is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Omaha.[2]

In Eakins works

  • Sketch for the Crucifixion.jpg

    G-143. Sketch for The Crucifixion (1880)

  • The cruxifixion thomas eakins.jpeg

    G-142. The Crucifixion (1880)

  • Wallace Posing.jpg

    G-143a. Wallace Posing (circa 1883)

  • Eakins H47.jpg

    Wallace as The Piper (1883)

  • Eakins H45.jpg

    Wallace as The Piper (1883)

  • Study for Arcadia - Youth Playing Pipes.jpg

    G-198. Youth Playing Pipes (1883)

  • G-196. Arcadia (1883)

  • Youth Playing the Pipes G508.jpg

    G-508. Youth Playing Pipes (1883)

  • Eakins and Wallace, nude (circa 1883)

  • Eakins, Thomas (1844-1916) - 1883 - Eakin's art studens bathing 2.png

    Eakins students bathing (1883)

  • G-190. The Swimming Hole (1884–85). Wallace is the standing man with hands on his hips

References

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