Georgina Klitgaard
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Georgina Klitgaard (née Berrian; July 3, 1889/1893 – January 12, 1977)[1][2] was an American artist.[3] Klitgaard was known for panoramic landscape paintings of scenic New York from a bird's-eye view perspective.[3] Her work was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, on April 14, 1929, and in The Art Digest, on November 1, 1929.[3] She painted three murals in United States Post Offices during the Great Depression.[3]
Education
Born Spuyten Duyvil, New York (now The Bronx, New York) in 1889 or 1893 as Georgina Berrian, she graduated from Barnard College. She also studied art at the National Academy of Design.[3] She married Danish writer Kay Klitgaard (1888-1954) in 1919. The couple had two sons: Peter Klitgaard (1921-1976) and Wallace Berrian Klitgaard (1937-2006).[3] They lived in Bearsville, New York, near an artist colony in Woodstock, New York.[3] She was among the List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1933.
Georgina Klitgaard died in Ulster County, New York on January 12, 1977, one month after the death of her elder son, Peter.[1]
Career
She painted the New Deal era mural Pelham Landscape (1941) at the United States Post Office at Pelham, Georgia.[4] Klitgaard's mural The Running of the Hambletonian Stake at the United States Post Office (Goshen, New York) (a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places) was controversial for featuring harness racing, a subject deemed unworthy for public art. Postal murals of the era were supposed to focus on local history and contemporary life, but the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture strongly objected to her intention to paint the track, asking her to paint a local landscape instead. The community indicated its strong support of the track, and she was allowed to paint it.[5]
References
- ^ a b "MATTER OF KLITGAARD | 83 A.D.2d 651 (1981) | ad2d6511505". Leagle.com. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Georgina Klitgaard". Gf.org. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g Georgina Klitgaard profile, Smithsonian Institution (includes photograph of Georgina Klitgaard)
- ^ "Pelham, Georgia Mural". Flickr.com. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
- ^ Goshen Post Office National Register of Historic Places nomination form
External links
- Photo of Georgina Klitgaard Archives of American Art
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- Barnard College alumni
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- 1977 deaths
- Painters from New York City
- Artists from the Bronx
- People from Woodstock, New York
- Federal Art Project artists
- Section of Painting and Sculpture artists
- 20th-century American women artists
- Women muralists