Walter A. Bailey

Editor and Art Director of the Kansas City Times from 1917 to 1927 and then a studio and newspaper artist in California, Walter Bailey was born in Wallula, Kansas. He also became a noted muralist and landscape painter. Two of his murals are at the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, four murals are in the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, and another in East High School, Kansas City.

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