Norwood MacGilvary Landscape Oil Painting "Green Mountains"
Item Details
Norwood MacGilvary (Pennsylvania/New York/California, 1874 – 1949/50)
Green Mountains, circa 1944
Oil painting on board
Signed to lower left
Salmagundi Club, New York 1944 exhibition label to the verso
Son of missionaries, Norwood Hodge MacGilvary was born in Bangkok, Siam and traveled extensively during his youth. He and his family returned to the United States when the artist was fourteen years old. He studied at Davidson College, where he graduated as Valedictorian, then continued his education studying art and philosophy at UC Berkeley and the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco. Later on, he studied at the Académie Julian under Jean Paul Laurens and at Etaples, France under Mayron Barlow. While living in Paris, he exhibited at the Paris Salon, then moved to the northeast working as a magazine illustrator for several publishers including Harper’s, Pictorial Review, and Cosmopolitan. From 1921 to 1943, MacGilvary was an Associate Professor of Painting at the Carnegie Institute and served as the President of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. He became known for his realistic portraits and paintings of New England landscapes, however he also created philosophically inspired work, some of which are considered surrealist, exhibiting existential themes. During his life, he exhibited his work at numerous institutions including the Panama-Pacific Exhibition in San Francisco, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Kansas City Museum and the Carnegie Institute, among many others. In addition, his work has been collected by several museums, such as the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Carnegie, the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., among others.
Condition
- light scattered accretion; light wear to frame.
Dimensions
- measures frame; visible image measures 13.25" W x 10.25" H.
Item #
ITMG125781
