Edmond J. Fitzgerald Oil Painting Self Portrait as a Naval Officer
Item Details
Edmond James Fitzgerald (American, 1912-1989)
Untitled (Self-portrait), 1945
Oil painting on canvas
Signed and dated to lower left
An oil painting portrait of a Naval officer, by well listed artist Edmond James Fitzgerald (American, 1912-1989). Thought to be a self portrait, this oil on canvas depicts a Naval officer with binoculars. Signed ‘Fitzgerald ’45’ to the lower left. Presented in a wood frame with a foliate carved interior border. Framed by Raymond Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio. Includes a wire to the verso and is ready to hang. Also includes a frame mounted brass tone art lamp.
Renowned for his sea-landscape, landscape, portrait and genre paintings, Edmond J. Fitzgerald is prolific in a wide range of mediums including oil, watercolor, and charcoal. He is considered active in Washington, Seattle, New York and Cincinnati.
Fitzgerald grew up in the Seattle area, graduated from The California School of Fine Arts, and as a young man participated in an U.S. Geological Survey Expedition to Alaska. He is known for love of painting the outdoors. A Naval officer during World War II, he later continued many years in the Naval Reserves, with many naval art assignments.
He is notably Influenced by Eustace Ziegler, and Alaskan landscapes. He married Mary Louise Streets, a ceramics student before the war, and moved to New York after the war. He taught classes at institutions such as a Parson’s School of Design, and the New York Academy of Design. A former president of the Allied Artists of America and the American Watercolor Society, Fitzgerald’s art is in permanent collections at the White House, George Washington University, the Seattle Art Museum and many others. He authored art books titled Painting and Drawing in Charcoal and Oil and Marine Painting in Watercolor. After Mary Louis Streets died he married Margaret Trent and relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio.
Condition
- lamp is in good working condition.
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Item #
18CIN500-176
