Walter Reinsel
American (1905-1979)
Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Reinsel studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as well as in France with Andre Lhote. Upon his return to the United States, Reinsel became an art director at a leading advertising firm in Philadelphia, working as watercolor painter as well. Reinsel painted throughout Maine, visiting Monhegan and painting the island’s rugged cliffs, as well as traveling to Baxter State Park to capture the state’s highest mountain.
Reinsel exhibited his works at the Salons of American, the Society of Independent Artists, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the American Watercolor Society and the Butler Art Institute, among others. Reinsel’s paintings won him many prizes, and are now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Reading Public Museum, and the Woodmere Art Gallery.