Walter Whall Battiss
(1906-1982) - (featured artist)
Pages: pp44+ Size: 274mm Language: English
Sub-type: Periodical article
Place publication: Johannesburg, RSA Publisher: Libertas Volume Number 12
Additional notes: Th contents page states: Libertas cover picture is a copy of a prehistoric rock painting made by Walter Battiss, a young South African artist, who has devoted himself to studying and copying these examples of art which give us an idea how men lived as far back as 5,000 years ago . . .
A photograph of Battiss is shown on p66 and states: Walter Battiss, well-known South African artist, who has contributed valuable information to our store of knowledge about South Africa's first painters. Since his European trip in 1938, he has spent all his holidays wandering the mountains and great river valleys in search of prehistoric rock paintings.