WALTER ODDIE (American 1808-1865) A PAINTING, "River Landscape," oil on canvas. 25" x 30" NOTE: Hudson River School artist and elected member of The National Academy of Design. Walter Oddie began exhibiting his paintings at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan in 1832 and was quickly raised just a year later to the honor of Associate of the National Academy (A.N.A.).? At his debut at the Academy in 1832 one contemporary critic commented that "He seems to have a passion for the thousand quiet nooks...and he portrays nature as she appears in her everyday garb..."? Three years later (1835) The American Monthly Magazine commented upon Oddie's submissions to that year's Academy exhibition: "The views of this artist are possessed of very decided merit - great strength, colors in general natural, perspective good - on the other hand we must confess that his figures do not, by any means, come up to his inanimate nature, and that his skies are at times somewhat harsh - these faults we are willing to designate to Mr. Oddie, because, barring these, he might, and probably will, become a first rate artist."