"Modernism holds no charms for me. Depth of field is all Important. Ryder, Blakelock, Vuillard, Joseph Decker, Raphael Peale, Gustave Moreau, I include among my masters"..........Walter Fields.   Walter Fields was born in 1942; studied at the University of Wisconsin, taught at the National Academy of Fine Arts in New York and is presently Director of the Jacklight Gallery in New York City.   In 2006, he received the Ingles Griswold Nelson Prize for Painting awarded by the National Academy of Fine Arts.