Walter Stuempfig, Jr., was a highly esteemed painter of landscapes and figurative compositions working in the Philadelphia area during the third quarter of this century. He grew up in Germantown, a residential section of Philadelphia. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1931 to 1935 and won its Cresson European Traveling Scholarship in 1934. His first solo exhibition was held at the Philadelphia Art Alliance in 1942. Solo exhibitions of his work were also organized by Durlacher Brothers Gallery, New York, from 1943 to 1961, encountering immediate success. Beginning in the late 1940s he received numerous honors for his work. Stuempfig was a faculty member of the Pennsylvania Academy from 1948 until his death in 1970. He often summered in Europe. He was equally successful with his still-life, landscape, and figure paintings.

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Archiv. Am. Art, Durlacher Brothers Papers § Rosamund Frost, "Stuempfig Remakes Nature," Art News 44 (December 15-31, 1945): 20 § Harry Salpeter, "Stuempfig: An Interview," American Artist 12 (November 1948): 52-55,74-76 § Barbara Moore, "Stuempfig," in Art U.S.A. Now, ed. Lee Nordness (New York: Viking, 1963), 2: 276-78 § Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Walter Stuempig: Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat., 1972, with essays by R. Sturgis Ingersoll and James Fosburgh, chronology.