In 1891, he moved to Omaha, Nebraska to take the position of Director of the Western Art Association. That organization soon failed, but Wallace remained in Omaha, becoming a commissioned portrait painter and professor.[2]
One of the portraits Wallace is known to have completed was of George W. Lininger, the owner of an extensive art collection and a private art gallery in Omaha that he routinely opened to the public at no charge.[3] The portrait of Lininger hung in Lininger's art gallery until it was closed and the contents sold in the late 1920s.[citation needed]
G-190. The Swimming Hole (1884–85). Wallace is the standing man with hands on his hips
References
^"Omaha Portraitis Sat for Thousand Paintings". The Omaha World-Herald Newspaper, Omaha, NE. 30 August 1953.
^ ab"Noted Artist Wallace Dies". The Omaha World-Herald Newspaper, Omaha, NE. 30 June 1953. Followed His Teaching Almost to End
^"Lininger Gallery a Dream Come True". The Omaha World-Herald Newspaper, Omaha, NE. 4 March 1927. p. 8. George W. Lininger, Whose Widow Died Thursday, Had Ambition to Stimulate Art in West - Gallery Opened in 1888