James Gahagan
James Gahagan | |
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| Born | 1927 Brooklyn, New York City |
| Died | Àtụ:Death date |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Spouse(s) | Pat deGogorza |
James Gahagan (1927 – July 7, 1999) was an American portrait painter and one of America's leading painters. [1] He was the director of the Hans Hofmann School and shared with Hoffman, two large mosaics in New York City..
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Gahagan was born in Brooklyn, New York. The son of a union organizer, [1] he served in the United States Navy during World War II and attended Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont from 1947 to 1951 with the American artist Richard Lipold, and filmmaker Robert M. Fisher. . He moved to New York City, and became involved in a project with the artist Hans Hofmann. In the 1950s when James Gallery was established in 1954, and organized the Artist Tenants Association, and became its first president.
Gahagan's work has been exhibited in New York, Provincetown, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Paris. In America specifically, it can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, and the University of California Art Museum in Berkeley. It was also shown in a traveling exhibition in 1957 in 64 countries sponsored by the United Nations, selected by Art News for the 1959 exhibition of twelve Americans in Spoleto, Italy, at the same time it was awarded the Longview Purchase Award. [1]
Na 1962, Gahagan bụ otu onye ndu nke ndị nka nke nwere ihe ịga nke ọma n'inweta mpaghara maka ụlọ elu ndị nka na New York City, dị ka Westbeth, [1] na ngalaba-guzobere otu Artist Tenant Association. [2] Gahagan nkà na ọtụtụ dị na America site na 1965 gaa n'ihu, Pratt Institute, Columbia University Graduate School of Arts na Goddard College dị ka Louise oche nke Art Department.
E mepere ụlọ akwụkwọ James Gahagan nke Fine Arts site na 1971 – 1974 [1] na Woodbury, Vermont, na Gahagan bụ onye nkuzi ndị ọbịa na Mahadum Notre Dame, Indiana, na 1978, Humboldt State University, California, na 1989, yana Vermont Studio . Center site na 1984 ruo 1999. Ọ bụkwa onye nkatọ na International Art Workshop na New Zealand n'etiti 1991 na 1992. Ọ nwụrụ n'ihe ya na Woodbury, Vermont</link>[ a chọrọ nkọwa ]