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Walter Mason Oddie

Walter Mason Oddie (1808 - 1865) was active/lived in New York.  Walter Oddie is known for Landscape, panorama painting.

This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV.  

WALTER MASON ODDIE, A.N.A. (1807/08 – November 15, 1865)

Landscape painter and merchant.  A prominent Brooklyn, Long Island, New York painter, he is best remembered as one of the first teachers of the respected American genre painter, Edward Lamson Henry (1841 – 1919).

His place of birth is variously reported as Maryland or Washington, DC, or possibly New Orleans, Louisiana, where his father lived before moving permanently to New York.  Walter Mason Oddie was the son of Cornelia Wattles (1784 – 1821) and John Ward Oddie (1772 – 1865).  John Oddie was a merchant and native of Great Britain and arrived in the United States around 1800, while Cornelia Wattles was the daughter of Major Mason Wattles (1752 – 1819), who served in the continental army during the American Revolution.

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Walter Mason Oddie available:    Gregory Messier,  Thomas Birch,  Joseph Sloman,  Andrew Melrose,  Elihu Vedder,  John Grabach,  Thomas Griffin,  George Washington Nicholson,  Mauritz Frederik Hendrick De Haas,  Ben (Benjamin) Foster,  Aaron Gorson,  Dines Carlsen,  George Renouard,  Edward Lamson Henry,  Olive Parker Black,  James Gale Tyler,  Louis Michel Eilshemius,  John Bunyan Bristol,  Edward B Gay,  David Johnson,  Edward Moran,  Alexander Helwig Wyant,  George Herbert McCord,  Edmund Greacen



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Facts about Walter Mason Oddie

   Publications  Book References:  20
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20 Book References for Walter Mason Oddie
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Driscoll, John Paul All That Is Glorious Around Us Hudson River School/A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
472 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1984 Anderson, Patricia The Course of Empire: The Erie Canal and the New York Landscape, 1825-1875
(Exhibition catalog)
90 Yes
1983 Wright, R Lewis Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist 200 No
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)
325 Yes
1976 Chambers, Bruce W Robert P Coggins Collection of American Art/Selections from
(Exhibition catalog)
93 Yes
1971 Vigtel, Gudmund/D Hoopes The Beckoning Land A Selection of Nineteenth Century Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
94 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1918 Dunlap, William A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834) 418 No
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