WALKER, HENRY OLIVER ( ,1_43-1929), American artist, was born at Boston (Mass.) on May 14, 1843. He was a pupil of Leon Bonnat, Paris, and painted the figure and occasional portraits, but later devoted himself almost exclusively to mural decoration. His paintings, symbolizing lyric poetry, for the Con gressional library, Washington, and his decorations for the Ap pellate Court house, New York city, the enlarged State house, Boston, the Court house, Newark (N.J.) and the Capitol at St.
Paul (Minn.), are among his most important works. He died in Belmont (Mass.) on Jan. 14, 1929.