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Horatio Walker à New York (1885-1916) : la volonté de faire carrière entre proximité et distance
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Horatio Walker à New York (1885-1916) : la volonté de faire carrière entre proximité et distance
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Horatio Walker was born in Listowel, Ontario, in 1858 and died in Sainte-Pétronille, on Île d'Orléans, in 1938. He began his artistic training with the photographers Notman and Fraser in Toronto between 1873 and 1876. He worked as a photographer in Rochester, New York, for a number of years. Towards the mid-1880s, he spent his winters in New York and his summers on Île d'Orléans. His highly idealized depictions of rural life in Quebec, showing hard-working peasants against a brilliant sky, are reminiscent of the French painters of the Barbizon School. The author notes that historiography has given us the image of Horatio Walker as an artist in harmony with the rural environment of the île d’Orléans, where the tutelary figure of Jean-François Millet is never far away. The author’s objective is to reverse this view by exploring the only living environment where Walker's career was at stake for more than thirty years: the Island of Manhattan. Based on an analysis of exhibition spaces, the singular position of Newman Montross, and the emergence of professional art criticism, the author contends that Walker’s desire to succeed and make a name for himself came true. The author concludes that through a complex dynamic between proximity and distance – geographical, social, and artistic – Walker occupies a unique place in the visibility and control of his works. In this, Walker understood that to have a career and last in New York, the artist must establish a clear distinction between creating and marketing his works.
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Le carnet, histoires de l’art
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Hiver 2026
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Vol. 3
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no. 1
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6-28
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chrome-extension://hbgjioklmpbdmemlmbkfckopochbgjpl/https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/carnet/2026-v3-n1-carnet010687/1124275ar.pdf
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fr
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Prioul, Didier. “Horatio Walker à New York (1885-1916) : la volonté de faire carrière entre proximité et distance.” Le carnet, histoires de l’art Vol. 3, no. 1 (Hiver 2026): 6–28. chrome-extension://hbgjioklmpbdmemlmbkfckopochbgjpl/https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/carnet/2026-v3-n1-carnet010687/1124275ar.pdf.
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