Edmond J. Fitzgerald Mid Century Oil Painting
Item Details
Edmond J. Fitzgerald (American; 1912 – 1989)
Untitled (Portrait), mid 20th century
Oil painting on canvas backed with particle board
Signed to the lower left
A mid 20th century oil painting on canvas by well listed artist Edmond James Fitzgerald (American; 1912 – 1989). The work depicts a half-length portrait of a stylish woman seated in a green chair with her right hand raised to her hair. The woman is wearing a white blouse, pearl earrings, red lipstick, and fingernail polish. The piece is signed to the lower left.
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
- overpainting particularly to the underside of chin, forehead, and right hand; heavy application of varnish to the brown background and hair; minor abrasions to the edges of the canvas; canvas loosely stapled to the backing board to the edges.
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Item #
18DCC605-250
