Valerie Harrisse Walter

Valerie Harrisse Walter ( – ) was an American sculptor from Baltimore, Maryland. She primarily created portrait busts and sculptures of animals, including dogs and life-sized bronze gorillas.

Valerie Harrisse Walter was born on in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter and one of five children of prominent Jewish lawyer Moses Raphael Walter and Bertha Ulman Walter. She attended Madame Lefebvre's School in Baltimore. She studied sculpture under Ephraim Keyser at the Maryland Institute and Henry Augustus Lukeman in his New York studio. In 1922, she sailed on the SS Lapland to Paris to study art, along the way completing a bas relief portrait of another passenger, a girl named Genevieve Lymans. In Paris, she completed busts of Riccardo Bertelli of the Roman Bronze Works and Dr. Nicholas Sbarounis Tricorphos, surgeon general of the Greek army.

Valerie Harrisse Walter died on 29 February 1984.