Norwood Hodge MacGilvary
“Sunshine and Water”
Circa 1915

Name: “Sunshine and Water”
Brand: Norwood Hodge MacGilvary
Price: 3200 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Very finely painted in muted pastel colors is an original oil on canvas board painting by the American artist, Norwood Hodge MacGilvery. Signed lower right. Titled verso along with Salmagundi exhibition label. Circa 1915. Condition is very good. Framed in a custom handmade 22k gold leaf frame 17 by 15 inches overall. Provenance: East coast Florida estate. Norwood Hodge MacGilvary was born in Bangkok, Siam (now Thailand) in 1876, a son of American missionaries. At age fourteen, he came to the United States to be educated at a private boys’ school in Virginia and then graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina. He had no formal art training until after college but was later to be called an artist-philosopher. He studied art and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and art at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco and Académie Julian in Paris. He became a resident of New York and Providence, where he worked as a freelance illustrator for magazines such as Harper’s, Cosmopolitan and Pictorial Review. MacGilvary joined the faculty of the art department at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh where he taught from 1921 to 1943. He is considered a member of the American Realist and Tonalist movements, and his landscapes and figurative painting often contain Symbolist and philosophical elements. In his paintings, he embraced the subjects of evolution, human survival and the impermanence of individual life. He exhibited in Paris, New York, Chicago and San Francisco and was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Boston Art Club and the Salmagundi Art Club. His works can be found in many important collections including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. He died in Pittsburgh in 1949 and was honored by a memorial show at the Pittsburgh Playhouse.

Creator:

Norwood Hodge MacGilvary (1874 - 1949, American)

Creation Year:

Circa 1915

Dimensions:

Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)Depth: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)

Medium:

Oil,Canvas

Movement & Style:

Post-Impressionist

Period:

1910-1919