Featured Need help identifying this possible John Goodall attribute watercolor art.

It looks like there is or was something down the bottom

But I agree that Walter is the signature, incorporated into the painting like Vincent's sunflowers

 

Artist being humorous with a little visual reference.

Debora

 

I can't read the handwritten notations on the back but it wouldn't be a leap to assume it's the artist's surname, a location and the date.

Debora

 

Not really able to make out what if anything is written in bottom left hand corner ,but would have to assume that Walter ,written clearly on right hand bottom is either the artists first name or surname.My instinct is to say that it is the latter a surname . Assuming that to be the case there is an artist A. Walter who was active around early 1900s and signed his work with a similar signature.The only works that I could find were a [Mountain scene with Matterhorn] and a [Vegitable Still Life] dated 1909.The signature style and the period would seem to fit,as Debora already noted that her dress was of the Edwardian period,plus his painting with the Matterhorn in it would suggest the same region.

 

If the artist is nodding to Vincent, than Walter will be his first name.

Debora

 

May be the Alps but doesn't appear to be the Matterhorn.

Debora

 

Her costume is too early for 1919. After the war, waists started to drop and hemlines rose.

Debora

 

What do you think about this signature. an art student friend sent it to me.

Thank you all for the effort in helping me identify this piece of art.
blessings to all. A art gallery here in Laguna Beach, CA wanted me to mail it to them to inspect it.

 

Tell you what, it ain't a million miles away, apart from the hook on the W

 

Think it might be right

 

There is nothing in Walter Goodall's oeuvre that looks remotely like this work. Not in subject. Not in execution.

Debora

 

Do artists ever change their direction after the influence of others ?

Time wise it maybe cutting it close though

 

yes that do.........but here......folks are grabbing at straws......

 

Well, of course. (Think of the influence of Japanese art on Van Gogh or of African art on Picasso.)

Debora

 

I could see this painting framed holding its own with many of the post impressionists of the time in a top gallery

That's how strong I feel about it

 

Just to clear up a few points.I did not say that the painting was of the Matterhorn,but that the painting by A WALTER was a scene of the Matterhorn but of that region Swiss Alps,also his other painting a still life, painted in 1909 which to me is Edwardian period as the dress of the lady would suggest.I was merely trying to find an artist of same name,who was active in that period in that region and with a similar signature.As regards Walter Goodall being the artist well ,Goodall died in 1889,[Victorian period to me], but also that he had a stroke 14 years earlier and was unable to paint for many years before he died. IMO he is clearly out of the running to be the artist.As regards the partly concealed name being a homage to Van Gough I'm not so sure.Many artists used similar ways of concealing their name so that it was not clearly obvious to the viewer.So the question still remains who is the artist and is he a Walter somebody or a somebody Walter.

 

I understand the questions as concern Walter but I wonder if the OP might share why they asked about John Goodall in the title.

 

Just to add I'm in the somebody Walter ,as a surname camp.