A successful artist who painted portraits, landscapes, and nudes, signing his paintings as "Walton C. Titus." He was living in Colorado Springs, Colorado when at 18 he won a scholarship from the New York Art Student's Leage. He attended the National Academy of Design in New York and the Chouinards Art School in California. As a portrait artist he served New York society for years, and was a member of the Board of Governors of the National Arts Club of New York. During World War II be became an engineer and used his art in the war effort. After the war he found himself doing very little painting as he cared for his mother in his home. He had been a commercial artist in New York and then in California. He taught Commercial illustration at Frank Wiggins School in California. He enjoyed the friendship of actress-theatre director Joan Wilcoxson, and thought some of his finest work were a series of 15 paintings she commissioned for her long-running Nativity pagent, an annual event in Santa Monica, California. He was 57 when he married Mona Taylor. They settled in Cambria, California, where he and his wife Mona were active in local art circles. He was a member of the Valley Artists Guild, the Laguna Art Association, and the Painters and Sculptors Club. He frequently did public demonstrations of oil painting, and taught adult classes in oil portrait and landscape painting.
A successful artist who painted portraits, landscapes, and nudes, signing his paintings as "Walton C. Titus." He was living in Colorado Springs, Colorado when at 18 he won a scholarship from the New York Art Student's Leage. He attended the National Academy of Design in New York and the Chouinards Art School in California. As a portrait artist he served New York society for years, and was a member of the Board of Governors of the National Arts Club of New York. During World War II be became an engineer and used his art in the war effort. After the war he found himself doing very little painting as he cared for his mother in his home. He had been a commercial artist in New York and then in California. He taught Commercial illustration at Frank Wiggins School in California. He enjoyed the friendship of actress-theatre director Joan Wilcoxson, and thought some of his finest work were a series of 15 paintings she commissioned for her long-running Nativity pagent, an annual event in Santa Monica, California. He was 57 when he married Mona Taylor. They settled in Cambria, California, where he and his wife Mona were active in local art circles. He was a member of the Valley Artists Guild, the Laguna Art Association, and the Painters and Sculptors Club. He frequently did public demonstrations of oil painting, and taught adult classes in oil portrait and landscape painting.
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