Edmond J. Fitzgerald Oil Painting "The Pier"

Item Details

Edmond James Fitzgerald (American; 1912 – 1989)
The Pier
Oil painting on canvas board
Signed to the lower left
Eisele Gallery label to the verso of the frame

An oil painting on canvas board titled The Pier by well listed artist Edmond James Fitzgerald (American; 1912 – 1989). The work depicts a beachscape with a boardwalk over grass covered dunes in front of a receding tide and a distant pier. The piece is signed to the lower left. It is presented in a gilt wood frame with a linen liner. An Eisele Gallery label is attached to the verso of the frame.

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 his 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

- some minor scratches and abrasions throughout the finish of the frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; sight measures 15.25" W x 11.25" H.

Item #

18CIN500-512