William Aiken Walker (American/South Carolina, 1838-1921), "Cabin Scene, Wash Day", oil on academy board, signed lower left, partial "Devoe & Co." label, titled and inscribed "Cabin" en verso, 9 1/4 in. x 12 1/8 in., framed . Provenance: Acquired by the current owner from the George F. McMurray Collection, Hartford, CT, c. 1979. Note: To be included in John Fowler's forthcoming catalogue raisonne on William Aiken Walker. This exceptional cabin scene depicts a "wash day," a favored trope among Walker's domestic scenes. Depicted here is a complex composition with a plethora of finely rendered naturalistic details, including a cat napping at the cabin door, garments and a stretched hide hanging on the cabin exterior, a featherbed airing on a chicken coop in the foreground, a view of a neighboring cabin in the background, an outbuilding with a martin house in the right foreground, a sow and rain barrel center right, four moss laden trees with a palmetto, and three children in the left foreground including a toddler in a wagon. Reference: Trovaioli, August and Roulhac Toledano. William Aiken Walker, Southern Genre Painter. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2008, pp. 174-177; Seibels, Cynthia. The Sunny South, The Life and Art of William Aiken Walker.