Claim: Marie Walker Last has worked with avant-garde European artists and eventually shared a studio with her lifelong friend Robert Graves to continue her career.
Evidence: Walker Last shared a studio with the Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams for several years before returning to Yorkshire to marry local solicitor Tom Last. Moving to Ilkley Walker Last bought an empty chapel in Menston to use as her studio. Marie Walker Last (14 March 1917 – 25 March 2017) was a British artist working in London in the late 1950s and early 1960s before returning to continue painting in her Yorkshire home until her death in 2017. Novelist, poet, soldier