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James Gahagan (
1927 -
July 7,
1999) was an
American abstract expressionist painter and one of the premier American
colorists. He was an Associate Director of the Hans Hofmann School and created, with
Hoffman, two major
mosaic murals in
New York City.
Biography
Gahagan was born in
Brooklyn,
New York, in
1927. The son of a labour union organiser, he served in the
United States Navy during the
Second World War and then attended
Goddard College,
Plainfield,
Vermont from
1947 to
1951 with
American sculptor Richard Lippold. He then moved to
New York City, and became involved in projects with abstract artist Han Hofmann. In the
1950s when co-founded the James Gallery in
1954, and organising the Artist Tenants Association, as well as being its first president.
Gahagan's work was being exhibited in
New York,
Provincetown,
San Francisco,
Los Angeles and
Paris. In America specifically it's found in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Chrysler Museum in
Norfolk, Virginia, and the
University of California Art Museum in
Berkeley. It was also featured in a
1957 travelling exhibition to 64 nations funded by the
United Nations, and chosen by Art News for a
1959 exhibit of twelve Americans in
Spoleto,
Italy, at the same time he was awarded a Longview Purchase Grant.
In
1962 Gahagan was one leader of an artists strike which succeeded in gaining zoning for artists' lofts in
New York City, such as Westbeth, and co-founding the Artists Tenant Association. Gahagan taught art at a number of
universities in
America from
1965 onwards, including the
Pratt Institute,
Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts and
Goddard College as Chairman of the Art Department.
The James Gahagan School of Fine Arts was opened from
1971 -
1974 in
Woodbury, Vermont, and Gahagan was a guest teacher at
Notre Dame University,
Indiana, in
1978,
Humboldt State University, California, in
1989, and the
Vermont Studio Center from
1984 until
1999. He had also become a critic at the International Art Workshop in
New Zealand between
1991 and
1992. He died in
1999 at his home in Woodbury, Vermont.
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