James Henry Daugherty - Magic Garden Signed Painting

James Henry Daugherty - Magic Garden Signed Painting

Manufacturer: N/A
SKU:	N/A
Unit:	in

Price: $2,500.00
This item is in stock

Description

James Henry Daugherty (American, 1889-1974) - The Magic Garden Synchronist Composition
Dated July 20, 1971 lower left. Titled lower center. Initialed lower right.
Pastel on Paper.
Property of a prominent Palm Springs Collector, purchased SAS Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris.
Professionally matted and framed in gilt frame.
Image size: 11 1/2 by 13 1/4 inches. Framed size: 18 inches by 20 1/4 inches.

James Henry Daugherty (June 1, 1889 – February 21, 1974) was an important American Modernist painter, muralist, author and illustrator. Born in Asheville, North Carolina, he subsequently lived in Indiana, Ohio, and at the age of 9 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he studied at the Corcoran School of Art. Later, he went to London and studied under Frank Brangwyn. In 1940, his book Daniel Boone won the Newbery Medal. He was also the author of Walt Whitman's America Selections and Drawings by James Daugherty.
In September 2006, controversy erupted at Hamilton Avenue School, an elementary school in Greenwich, CT, over Daugherty's depiction of Bunker Hill hero and Connecticut native Israel Putnam in a mural commissioned by WPA and installed in the school in 1935. Restoration of the mural, blackened by years of neglect, revealed a scene filled with violent and richly-colored imagery, including snarling animals, tomahawk-wielding American Indians and a half-naked General Putnam strapped to a burning stake. School officials objected to the violent imagery and ordered the mural removed.
Daugherty will be included in the exhibition The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America at the Yale Gallery in 2010.

E-mail a friend about this item.

Return to Catalog