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Georgina Klitgaard

Georgina Klitgaard (1893 - 1976) was active/lived in New York.  Georgina Klitgaard is known for Rural landscape, aviation and genre painting, mural.

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Georgina Klitgaard, born in Spuyten Duyvil, New York in 1893, was a very successful painter, muralist and etcher who was friendly with artists Julian Bloch, George Biddle and Eugene Speicher. She studied at the National Academy of Design and Barnard College in New York City.

Klitgaard's work has a subtle folk art primitivism combining with expressiveness full of personal symbolism. In her tiny snowy landscape "Bearsville School, New York," only 8 by 10 inches, children play underneath a scraggly tree with the white schoolhouse seemingly startled behind it. The sky is very mystical, which could lead the viewer to believe they are not dealing with your average realist.

Klitgaard won awards from Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Pan American Exposition; and San Francisco Art Association, among others. She also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1933.

She exhibited year after year at Carnegie Institute, Pennsylva   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1876 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Georgina Klitgaard


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Aviation, Airplanes, Aeronautics, Space Exploration
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Snowscene, Winter Landscape
  • Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Woodstock, New York
Art Association
  • Audubon Society of Artists-
  • Woodstock Art Association, New York
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Columbia University Art Department, Student
  • National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Emily Lowe Memorial Award, National Academy of Design
  • Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, The Pennsylvania Academy
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Genre Specialty
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Mural Specialty
  • Snowscene Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Whitney Studio Club, Later Whitney Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Audubon Society of Artists
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • San Francisco Art Association
  • Woodstock NY Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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