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[[File: Walter Speck.png|350px|thumbnail|right|<center>Walter Speck painting a United Auto Workers mural in Detriot, Michigan as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project in 1937.
[[File:Walter Speck.png|350px|thumbnail|right|<center>Walter Speck painting a United Auto Workers mural in Detriot, Michigan as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project in 1937. </center>]]


[[File: |350px|thumbnail|right|<center>Catalina Pottery, watercolor by Santa Catalina Island, 1933 </center>]]
 
[[File: |350px|thumbnail|right|<center>“Catalina Pottery,”  Santa Catalina Island by Walter Speck, 1933 </center>]]





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Walter Speck painting a United Auto Workers mural in Detriot, Michigan as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project in 1937.


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“Catalina Pottery,” Santa Catalina Island by Walter Speck, 1933

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SPECK, Walter Edward (1896-1979) was born in Detroit, MI on Aug. 29, 1896. Speck studied in Paris with John P. Wicker and Othon Freisz. While on Catalina Island in 1933, he painted a view of the Catalina Pottery Factory. He was active in Michigan and then in California.

Speck died in Los Angeles on Oct. 11, 1979.