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Article: OBITUARY : John Walker
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 28, 1995
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In his autobiography, Self-Portrait with Donors (1974), John
Walker reveals himself as a man of courage, grace, humour, pungency
and wit. Blessed with many advantages, he had to triumph over
adversity, suffering from an attack of polio when he was 13 which
confined him to a wheelchair. From this position he got to know
the paintings in the Metropolitan Museum in New York which
determined the abiding interest of his life. He later provided
wheelchairs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, when
Director of the gallery, and urged even the hale and hearty to use
them as being the right height for the best viewing of these
paintings.
Born to wealth, Walker belonged to the fortunate ...