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Edmond J. Fitzgerald Oil Painting of Manchester, Vermont with Letter from Artist

Item Details

Edmond James Fitzgerald (American, 1912 – 1989)
Untitled (Manchester, Vermont, architectural landscape)
Oil painting on board
Signed to the lower right
Inscription to the verso
Includes an envelope with a note from previous owner about piece “which I watched him paint on a wet ‘drizzly’ day” and a letter from the artist noting the work being gifted and it’s location.

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 Louise Streets died, he married Margaret Trent and relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio.

Condition

- minor abrasions to frame; wear to letter.

Dimensions

13.5" W x 17.5" H x 1.0" D

- measures frame; sight measures 11.5" W x 15.5" H.

Item #

ITMG534074

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