Fred Nagler
Releasing the Dove
1971-1972

Name: Releasing the Dove
Brand: Fred Nagler
Price: 14000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Fred Nagler was born in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he first studied wood carving. From 1914 to 1917, he studied at The Art Students League of New York, where his professors included Tom Fogerty, Frank Dumond, Frederick Bridgman, and Robert Henri. At the Art Students League he won the Bridgman Scholarship and Annual Portrait Prize, a competition juried by George Bellows and John Sloan. Subsequently, he became a member of the Art Students League Board of Control. In 1940, he became president of the Bronx Artists Guild. Nagler was offered many prestigious positions during his career, including three art department chairmanships: at the Connecticut College for Women, The State University of Iowa (upon the death of Grant Wood), and the Eastman School of Art. Fred Nagler has been called a painter’s painter which can be substantiated by the fact that he won four of the major awards given by artist juries during his time: The Payne Gold Medal and Purchase Prize at a Virginia Museum Biennial; the Clark Prize and Silver Medal at a Corcoran Biennial; the first Altman Figure Prize at a National Academy Annual; and a grant from the Academy of Arts and Letters. AWARDS Childe Hassam Purchase Award, American Academy of Art and Letters Halgarten Prize, National Academy of Design, (for an artist under 35) John Barten Payne Gold Medal and Purchase, Virginia Museum Clark Prize and Silver Medal, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. Altman Prize, National Academy of Design Carnegie Prize, National Academy of Design Lamont Prize, Audubon Artists Fabre Prize, Audubon Artists First Prize, Museum of Springfield, Massachusetts First Prize, New Haven Museum WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. United States Embassies around the world American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York National Academy of Design, New York Metropolitan Museum, New York Nebraska Art Museum The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts Dwight Chapel, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Holy Redeemer Church, Reading, Pennsylvania University of Texas, Austin, Texas Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota Christ Church, Riverdale, New York City Riverdale Presbyterian Church, New York City Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana Faith Church, Springfield, Massachusetts The Wesley Foundation of Virginia Polytechnic Institute Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Hicksville, Long Island, New York The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Creator:

Fred Nagler (1891-1983, American)

Creation Year:

1971-1972

Dimensions:

Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)

Medium:

Canvas,Oil

Movement & Style:

American Modern

Period:

Mid-20th Century