Marion Walton
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Marion Wetherill Walton aka Marion Walton Putnam (November 19, 1899 – December 11, 1996 ) was an American sculptor and teacher born in New Rochelle, New York.
She was the daughter of Ernest Forster Walton and music patron Blanche Wetherill Walton,[1] her father was killed in a Grand Central Station train accident in 1901 and she was raised by her mother.[2]
She studied at the Art Students League, at Hunter College and in Paris with Antoine Bourdelle, at the Borglum School of Sculpture and at Bryn Mawr College.[3]
Career
Walton was a member of the Sculptors Guild and was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949. She taught both at her studio in New York City and at Sarah Lawrence College.[4]
Walton was a WPA Federal Art Project artist, for whom she created three 1942 limestone relief pieces, "Indian," "Mine Elevator" and "Campbell's Ledge" for the post office in Pittston, Pennsylvania.[5]
She was chosen to create a large 15-foot outdoor sculpture called "Young Man with Cow" for the 1939_New_York_World's_Fair outside the Federal Building in the garden court. [6]
