James McGarrell
James McGarrell (born February 22, 1930 in Indianapolis , Indiana , † February 7, 2020 in Woodsville , New Jersey ) was an American painter , known for his figurative painting of lush interiors and landscapes . In later years he also worked as an abstract painter .
life and work
McGarrell began painting in the basement of his parents' house at the age of 20. He took his first formal studies in the arts at Indiana University and the School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan , Maine . He graduated from the University of California in Los Angeles with a degree in painting . In 1955, McGarrell had his first solo exhibition at the Frank Perls gallery in Beverly Hills and in the same year received a Fulbright scholarship to visit the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart .
After his return from Germany in 1956, McGarrell began a longer academic career at Reed College in Portland , Oregon . Three years later he visits Indiana University again to complete the postgraduate painting program there . In 1981 he accepted a teaching position at the School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis , where he remained until his retirement in 1993. He has also taught briefly at other universities, such as the Skowhegan School, Perugia University for Foreigners in Italy , Rice University , the University of Utah , Arizona State University and Dartmouth College .
During the past half century, McGarrell had more than a hundred solo exhibitions in galleries and museums in America, England , France, and Italy. His paintings, prints, and drawings have been featured in hundreds of exhibitions in the United States, South America , Europe, and Japan .
He has been an elected member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design since 1994 , and a corresponding member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France. In 1995 he was awarded the Jimmy Ernst Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
His work has been featured at five Whitney Biennials and other biennials , twice at Carnegie International (1958 and 1983); in the Museum of Modern Art , New York City (1960), in the Tate Gallery , London (1963 and 1964); shown at documenta III (1964) in Kassel and at the Musée des Augustins , Toulouse in France . He was one of five painters who participated in the representation of the figurative tradition in American art in the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1968. McGarrell's paintings are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art , the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , the Art Institute of Chicago , the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts , the Portland Museum of Art , the Saint Louis Art Museum , the Santa Barbara Museum of Art , the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and many other public and private collections in the USA and Europe.
James McGarrell was married to the writer and translator Ann McGarrell .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary for James J. "Jim" McGarrell. Cremation Society of New Hampshire, accessed February 12, 2020 .
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: National Academicians "M" / McGarrell, James, NA 1994 ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Literature and Sources
- documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964
- Gerrit Henry " James McGarrell at George Adams ", Art in America , March 2003
- Esplund, Lance: " James McGarrell at George Adams, " Art in America , May 2000
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McGarrell, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Indianapolis , Indiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 2020 |
| Place of death | Woodsville , New Jersey |