Ralph Trafford Walker b. 1912

  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Sculptor and printmaker, designed 16 of the 18 relief panels for one of the main Mitchell Library bronze doors, appointed an official war artist with the Australian War Memorial in 1944, designed visual material for ABC television productions in the 1960s.
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sculptor and printmaker, was born in Sydney on January 7, 1912. Studied at Brisbane Tech with L.J. Harvey, at East Sydney Technical College under Rayner Hoff, at the Royal Art Society School under Datillo Rubbo and Sydney Long and from 1937 to 1941 under Henry Gibbons at the Julian Ashton School. Walker designed 16 of the 18 relief panels for one of the main Mitchell Library bronze doors. In 1944 he was appointed an official war artist with the Australian War Memorial and created three dioramas ( Weewak , Artillery Hill, Bougainville 1944 and Bacon Hill New Britain 1945 ), eight drawings and eight sculptores for the museum. In the late 1930s he made linocuts, most given away to friends. He married artist and teacher Edith Jean Brown in 1947. In the 1960s Walker designed visual material for ABC television productions at its Gore Hill studios. The National Gallery of Australia has 10, including first state (1936) and second state (1937) of (Man with a Jackhammer) , a strong abstract composition (latter ill. Lebovic & Warner, Fifty Years , cat.87).

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Related stub people
  • Rubbo, Datillo (associate of)
  • Gibbons, Henry (associate of)
  • Brown, Edith Jean (spouse of)
Related stub person groups
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (associate of)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Sydney, NSW (associate of)
  • Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT (associate of)
Related people
  • Harvey, L. J. (associate of)
  • Hoff, Rayner (associate of)
  • Long, Sydney (associate of)
Related works
  • Bougainville (creator of)
  • Man with a Jackhammer (creator of)
  • Bacon Hill New Britain 1945 (creator of)
  • Weewak, Artillery Hill (creator of)
  • 16 of the 18 relief panels for one of the main Mitchell Library bronze doors (creator of)
Related collections
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
Related events
  • Ralph Trafford Walker: a retrospective (exhibited at)