In Stuempfig’s case, romantic art seemed to mean painting that sacrificed everything else to mood. His The Old Man, one of the hits of the exhibition, showed both the strength and weakness of ...

At 37, Walter Stuempfig has earned a niche for himself as one of the nation's foremost "romantic" painters (TIME, Dec. 12, 1949). The subject of much of his romanticism: the streets ...

"Walter Stuempfig Memorial Exhibition," Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1972, no. 34. "Walter Stuempfig Memorial Exhibition," Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Academy of the ...