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Bart Walter
Bart Walter
© Bart Walter Artist retains copyright. In essence: Allows the NMWA to use images of artwork for Museum specific things, including publications, on the website, in magazine and newspaper articles, invitations, flyers, etc. Does NOT have permission to 3D print. Allows the NMWA to use images of the artwork(s) to create items that can be sold in the Museum Shop and through the website. This could include, but is not limited to, postcards and posters. Allows any institutions which may borrow work(s) on loan from the NMWA to utilize images for exhibition related advertisements and catalogs Allows the NMWA to use images of any future work(s) that it collects, in which the copyright is held by the artist, for Museum specific things (see #1).

Bart Walter

United States, born 1958
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Place of BirthBaltimore, Maryland, United States of America
BiographyBefore Bart Walter sculpted in bronze, he had established himself as a woodcarver. In 1986 he signed on as an usher in order to attend a lecture given by Jane Goodall at the College of William & Mary. It was during her visit that she commissioned Walter to make a sculpture of a chimp. It was his first attempt at sculpting a chimp and he was relatively new to the bronze media. Since then Walter has established himself as a sculptor whose bronzes effectively convey emotion and movement to their viewers.
"I strive to capture the essence of a living being to explore some kernel of truth that may have gone unnoticed and to depict an otherwise elusive moment in time. My goal is a distillation of subject until only true essentials are left. If in doing so I can reveal some intangible spirit, make evident the soul of my subject; then I have accomplished something real."
(Quote from: Kristan Clarke, "Chimps to gather at wildlife art museum," Jackson Hole News 31 Jan. 2001: 13)
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