(1844-1908) Painter, illustrator, and etcher Walter Satterlee was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Columbia University. He studied painting with Edwin White and at the National Academy of Design , where he won the Clarke Prize and was elected an Associate in 1886. He also studied in Paris with Leon Bonnat, and with Freeman in Rome. During the summers of the 1880s, Satterlee painted in East Hampton, Long Island, when the island's undeveloped natural beauty attracted many American painters. Merging two traditions, his Field of Flowers is set amongst the island's rural fields, while the two figures are reminiscent of the European peasants he painted abroad. His concise technique is combined with a skillful use of light to focus attention and create quiet drama. The influence of Satterlee's fondness for juxtaposing light with figures is seen in the work of his student, Charles Courtney Curran, known for his sun-filled figurative painting.

Biography courtesy of Roger King Gallery of Fine Art, www.antiquesandfineart.com/rking