SPECK, Walter Edward

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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. [[File: |350px|thumbnail|right|Catalina Pottery, watercolor by Santa Catalina Island, 1933 ]]

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.