WALTER DOGS, INC.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA

In the late ’80s and ’90s, Walter’s art career took a backseat to music as his band The Silos gained distinction and began making a series of albums that led to a contract with RCA Records and a national television debut on “Late Night with David Letterman.” The Silos were also named the “Best New American Band” in the Rolling Stone Critic’s Poll. Walter subsequently wrote, produced and recorded a dozen albums, and has performed thousands of concerts worldwide sharing bills and venues with countless international stars, including The Jayhawks, Hootie and the Blowfish, Foo Fighters, Lucinda Williams, and Lou Reed. In the early 2000s, Walter returned to painting in earnest, infusing his formal style with the acquired populism of his intervening musical career, which now spanned its third decade. During this period, he created several stylized dog paintings as holiday gifts for his nieces and nephews. Their popularity quickly led to commissioned portraits of pet dogs in his signature style for friends, family, acquaintances and fans, and the requests for them soon outpaced his ability to meet the demand. In 2005, he formed the WaltersDogs company and began producing originals and prints for sale at concerts, by mail-order and in music-oriented or outsider/folk art galleries such as Yard Dog in Austin, Texas, eventually expanding his product line to include apparel, accessories, bedding and stationery products. WaltersDogs paintings can be seen on the walls of actress Elisabeth Moss’s apartment in the 2010 Universal Pictures comedy Get Him to the Greek, co-starring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill, and the designs will be featured in the Spring 2014 collection of the luxury American shoe brand Drilleys. , and his paintings were featured in the Universal Pictures Release “Get Him To The Greek” starring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill.