Walker mentions people-watching from his apartment building's sixth story fire escape, experiences taking the train as a southerner in a large city, and his 145th street community as some of the major inspirations behind his work.
In 1964, Walker began teaching at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California where he was a professor and later made chair of the art department.
In 2016, for his 80th birthday, his daughter Kara collaborated with Sikkema Jenkins, her representing gallery, for a solo exhibition for her father displaying works from over 50 years.
[3] The exhibition featured 38 works from Larry Walker's career, depicting the duress endured by human bodies and landscapes over time.
[5] Walker also has works that are in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia's permanent collection [6] where he held a two-part retrospective exhibition in 2018.