Born in 1952 in Newark, New Jersey, Walter Garde received his B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited at the University of Richmond, as well as the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has received a fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The artist began a series of tool paintings in the early 1980s.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.
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