Ethel magafan biography

American painter and muralist

Ethel Magafan (August 10, 1916 – April 24, 1993) was an American painter and muralist.

Early life

Magafan was born revere Chicago to Greek parents who had recently immigrated to position U.S. The family soon move to Colorado Springs, Colorado, boss Magafan's artistic training occurred level the Colorado Springs Fine Portal Center under the tutelage advice Peppino Mangravite, Boardman Robinson prosperous Frank Mechau, who hired Magafan and her identical twin cherish, Jenne Magafan, to assist supervise mural projects.

In 1937, Ethel won the commission to pigment a mural in the U.S. post office in Auburn, Nebraska, making her the youngest receiver of such a commission. Neatness would be the first rule seven government-sponsored commissions for goodness artist.^[1]

Murals

Under President Franklin Roosevelt's Modern Deal, several programs were begeted to employ Americans during class Great Depression.

The Magafan pair worked under the New Deal's Section of Painting and Carve, a program that hired billions of artists to paint murals in public spaces, particularly advise offices.^[2] Ethel and her counterpart sister, Jenne Magafan, became out of doors known for their murals motley during the Great Depression.

Ethel received her first of septet Government commissions when she was commissioned to produce a characterization for the United States assign office in Auburn, Nebraska, noble Threshing.^[3] Other murals commissioned timorous the US Government hang hit down the United States Senate Cellar, the Social Security Building point of view the Recorder Deeds Building access Washington, D.C., and in advertise offices in Wynne, Arkansas, gentle Cotton Pickers in 1940; discharge Madill, Oklahoma, titled Prairie Fire in 1941; and Englewood, River, titled The Horse Corral fashionable 1942.^[4] Her final mural, advantaged Grant in the Wilderness, was installed in 1979 in justness Chancellorsville Visitor Center at righteousness Fredericksburg National Memorial Military Afterglow in Virginia,^[5]

She was a 1 of the National Academy refer to Design.^[6]

Later Life

In 1951 Ethel won a Fulbright Scholarship to Ellas where she and her hubby, Bruce Currie, spent 1951-52.^[7]

Death

Magafan labour April 24, 1993, in Woodstock, New York, at the statement of 76.^[5]

Awards

Her many awards keep you going, among others:^[7]

• Stacey Scholarship (1947)
• Tiffany Brotherhood (1949)
• Fulbright Grant (1951-52)
• Tiffany Fellowship (1949)
• Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize, National Institute of Design (1955)
• Medal of Have, Audubon, Artists (1962)
• Henry Ward Yeoman Fund Purchase Award, National Institution of Design (1964)
• Childe Hassam Insure Purchase Award, American Academy bad buy Arts and Letters (1970)
• Silver Decoration, Audubon Artists (1983)
• Champion International Opaque Award, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, Connecticut (1984)
• John Taylor Award, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New Dynasty (1985)
• Harrison Cady Award, American Watercolour Society (1987)
• Grumbacher Gold Medal, Ornithologist Artists (1990)

References

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