Aili Waller, C’24 (left), spent three years solving the mystery of Mary Josephine Walters, a landscape painter from the Hudson River School. Michael Leja, James and Nan Wagner Farquhar Professor of History of Art, has advised Waller on this project from its inception her sophomore year. (Image: Eric Sucar/University Communications)
December 15, 2023
WHO WAS ARTIST MARY JOSEPHINE WALTERS?
History often overlooks 19th-century female artists. Aili Waller, C’24, spent three years solving the mystery of one from the Hudson River School.
Monday, December 4, 2023
By Katelyn Silva | OMNIA
Aili Waller, C’24, grew up fascinated by art and making meaning out of color, shape, and size choices. Genealogy was also a family hobby, and Waller spent hour upon hour happily immersed in library archives unearthing the mysteries of her familial history. She never lost that interest in solving puzzles, artistic and historical, and it eventually translated into building a biography of a little-known 19th-century American landscape artist, Mary Josephine Walters.
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