SPECK, Walter Edward

“Catalina Pottery,” Santa Catalina Island by Walter Speck, 1933
Gift to the Santa Cruz Island Foundtion of the estate of Bill Stern

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

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.