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WR Watkins
Early 20th Century Nudes :: 1920s — 1960s
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About WR Watkins
William Reginald Watkins (1890-1985) is an artist well positioned for rediscovery and revision. Once known as the dean of Baltimore artists, he lived and worked in that city from 1910 until his death at age 95, and taught painting for half a century at the Maryland Institute of Art. His work exhibited at major galleries and museums across the United States, and now appears in auction or on ArtNet and other online art networks where he is typically represented by local landscapes, seascapes, snowscenes and still lifes. However, it is the amazing series of watercolor nudes he produced from the 1920s through the 1960s that are among his finest and most distinct work. This site contains only a fraction of these overlooked paintings.
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About Us
We discovered WR Watkins in late 2008 as his estate was put up for auction. We were astonished to find so many previously hidden paintings of such high quality and idiosyncratic character. When we looked into his career it seemed that he and his work deserved rediscovery.
Frank Ladd is an artist and interactive designer/developer of branded digital entertainment.
He is senior design director for Pod Design
Lucy White is an acclaimed artist represented in galleries and museums throughout New England. You can follow her work at www.lucywhite.com or on Facebook Browse by Topic
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