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Walker, Janet Baird
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Janet Baird Walker was born on 30th October 1894, the daughter of Designer Archibald Walker and Janet Rowat Walker from St Leonard's, Bearsden. She was a student at The Glasgow School of Art from session 1910/11 to 1915/16, and sessions 1919/20 and 1927/28, always listing her home address as St Leonard's, Bearsden. Walker enrolled in the Drawing and Painting class throughout the sessions; the first year with Aston Nicholas, Assistant Professor in Elementary Courses and Lectures of the Section of Design and Decorative Arts, and the second year with James Huck, Assistant Professor in Antique and Preparatory Life. During the session 1927/28, she also enrolled in the Pottery class. For the last two sessions at The Glasgow School of Art, Walker enrolled as an evening student and listed her occupation as art teacher.
Walker is considered a watercolourist who was mostly active between 1935 and 1938. She exhibited one of her works at the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, and five of them at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. The first known exhibition of her work (under the name Miss Jenny Baird Walker) was in 1918 with the painting Elma at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. In 1938 she returned to exhibit at the same institution with the watercolours Pools and Polperro, and one last time in 1943 with the paintings Fillan Water and Tigh-na-Struith.
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Janet Baird Walker was also the sister of Robert Walker, another student of The Glasgow School of Art who appears in the WW1 Roll of Honour
Sources: McEwan, Peter J.M. (1994) Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture (p. 588).Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club Ltd. Billcliffe, Roger. (1992). The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts: 1861-1989. A Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Volume 4: Q-Z. (p.266) Bearsden, Glasgow: The Woodend Press. http://www.ancestry.co.uk
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