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


<span style="color:#006400">'''SPECK, Walter Edward'''</span> (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.
<span style="color:#006400">'''SPECK, Walter Edward'''</span> (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.
Speck died in Los Angeles on Oct. 11, 1979.

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[[File: Walter Speck.png|350px|thumbnail|right|

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: |350px|thumbnail|right|
Catalina Pottery, watercolor by Santa Catalina Island, 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.