Miss Agatha Walker

Born 10 February 1888 (Circa)
Died 1980

Active: 1911 - 1936

Country of birth and death: England

Sculptor, modeller

Born in Old Walsingham, Norfolk. Studying sculpture in 1911. In the 1920s and 1930s, Walker executed a series of small figurines of actors and actresses in successful London stage productions. They were made of plaster which was coated in a thin layer of wax and then coloured. In 1931 the Fine Art Society held an exhibition of these figurines and there are about 20 examples in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. A larger collection consisting of at least 50 figures, mainly in plaster with some wax, of theatrical, religious and royal subjects (Queen Mary), several plaques related to religious material and an archive have been acquired by Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. The collection is located at the Dorset County Museum.

See http://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?slug=walker-agatha&name=14719&offset=0 (accessed 21 August 2012) and http://www.dorsetcountymuseum.org/collections (accessed 22 November 2012). This entry includes information submitted by Gwen Yarker.

Citing this record

'Miss Agatha Walker', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1210172747, accessed 04 Jun 2023]