Georgina Klitgaard Art
American, 1893-1976
Georgina Berrian was born in Spuyten Duyvil, New York in 1893. She was educated at Barnard College and studied at the National Academy of Design in New York. She married the Danish-born mariner, artist, and writer Kaj Klitgaard in 1919. After visiting friends in Woodstock, the couple became committed to the area and built a home in 1922 in Bearsville which provided a panoramic view of the mountains and valleys of Woodstock.
Georgina Klitgaard's first exhibition in New York was held at the Whitney Studio Club from Dec.20, 1927 to January 7, 1928. Klitgaard's New York dealer was the Frank Rehn Galleries, where she began to exhibit in the 1930s, continuing that relationship into the 1950s. In 1939 and again in 1940 she had solo exhibitions with the Milch Gallery in New York. By the late 1920s, Klitgaard began to show works at museum invitationals. She sent work to the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania each year from 1928 to 1949. The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC invited Klitgaard to exhibit each year from 1930 to 1945. Klitgaard also exhibited works at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in Richmond and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1930 to 1945 annually.
Klitgaard was also invited to exhibit regularly at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1927 to 1944. In the 1936 works on paper component of the Whitney Biennial, Klitgaard exhibited Florida Landscape (No.116, a work on paper). In 1944 Klitgaard exhibited another Florida work, Early Spring, Florida (No. 7) at the Whitney. Based on this information, it seems likely that Klitgaard began to visit Florida in the winter during the 1930s and continued to do so until the 1940s. Many of her Woodstock artist friends, such as Doris Lee (1905-1983), found a way to spend time in Florida during the winter on a regular basis. Their experiences in Florida may have influenced Klitgaard to visit.
In 1933 Georgina Klitgaard received a Guggenheim Fellowship which provided funds to travel in Europe. In 1940 the family traveled around the U.S. while Kaj, himself now the recipient of a Guggenheim, wrote Through the American Landscape. During the Depression she was selected to paint murals in post offices in Pelham, Georgia and Goshen (1937) and Poughkeepsie (1940) in Upstate New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired Girl and Child Under A Pine Tree, a colorful portrait, in 1939. By the 1940s Klitgaard's work was also in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Newark Museum; the New Britain Museum of American Art; and the Dayton Art Institute, as well as other public and private collections.
Klitgaard was a member of the Audubon Artists and the American Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers. She had a studio in New York City located at 659 Fifth Avenue. Klitgaard died in 1976. The bulk of her exhibited subjects were painted around the Woodstock or Bearsville area.to
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Artist: Georgina Klitgaard
"New Hampshire Winter" Georgina Klitgaard, Female WPA, Northeastern Landscape
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
New Hampshire Winter
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
38 x 28 inches
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"Catskill Mountains" Georgina Klitgaard, Country Landscape Modernist Hills
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Catskill Mountains
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
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"Desert" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Desert Landscape With Waning Moon
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Desert
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
18 x 30 inches
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"Central Park South" Georgina Klitgaard, Female Modernist New York Cityscape
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Central Park South
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
40 1/2 x 28 inches
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"Spanish Moss, Georgia" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Southern Flora Painting
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Spanish Moss, Georgia
Signed lower right
Oil on artist's board
12 x 16 inches
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"Washington Square Park" Georgina Klitgaard, People in Cityscape Modernist Scene
By Georgina Klitgaard
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Georgina Klitgaard
Washington Square Park, New York
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"Fodder Stacks, Bearsville" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Agricultural Landscape
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Georgina Klitgaard
Fodder Stacks, Bearsville
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
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Waterfall Bearsville NY Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Cubism
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Waterfall Bearsville NY Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Cubism
Georgina Klitgaard (1893 - 1976)
Waterfall, Bearsville NY
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"Bearsville, New York" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist New York Wooded Landscape
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Bearsville, New York
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
26 1/4 x 32 inches
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Rites of Winter
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rites of Winter, by 1939, oil on canvas, 32 x 40 inches, exhibited: 134th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, January 29 – March 5, 1939, no...
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1930s American Modern Georgina Klitgaard Art
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"Pueblo Indians, Taos, New Mexico, " Georgia Klitgaard, Southwest Landscape
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Pueblo Indians, Taos, New Mexico
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches
Georgina Berrian was born in Spuyten Duyvil, New York in 1893. She was educated a...
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Johnny Walker’s Place
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Johnny Walker’s Place, by 1929, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 34 x 42 inches, exhibited 1) 28th International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, Octobe...
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1920s American Modern Georgina Klitgaard Art
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Canvas, Oil
The Ledge
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Georgina Klitgaard (1893 – 1976) The Ledge, by 1931, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 32 1/8 x 50 1/8 inches, exhibited: 1) 44th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings & Sculptur...
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1930s American Modern Georgina Klitgaard Art
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"Arroyo Seco, New Mexico" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Southwest Oil Landscape
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Arroyo Seco, New Mexico
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
28 x 42 inches
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1940s American Modern Georgina Klitgaard Art
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"Spring Ploughing" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist American Farmed Landscape
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Spring Ploughing
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
34 x 42 inches
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1940s American Modern Georgina Klitgaard Art
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"Fruit" Georgina Klitgaard, Apples and Pears Still Life, Woodstock Female Artist
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Apples and Pears Still Life
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
8 x 10 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artists to membership in one school or another. Unfortunately for her posthumous reputation, Klitgaard defied easy characterization. She was a U.S. modernist, working in both oil and watercolors, but never abandoned figurative painting. She made her reputation in landscape but also excelled in portraits, flower studies, and even cityscapes. Yet despite Klitgaard’s ambiguous status in art history, her paintings continue to fascinate viewers attracted to the unsteady ground between twentieth-century realism and expressionism.
Georgina Klitgaard (née Berrian) was born in Spuyten Duyvil, New York (now part of the Bronx); the Berrians had lived in the area since at least the U.S. Revolution. After graduating from Barnard College, she studied art at the National Academy of Design. In 1919 she married Kay Klitgaard, a Danish artist and writer. The next year, her life took a decisive turn when the couple visited friends in Woodstock, NY—about 120 miles north of New York City--and fell in love with the area.
In 1906, L. Birge Harrison helped found the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock and the area became a magnet for landscape painters. The Klitgaards bought a house in 1922 on a steep ledge at the end of Cricket Ridge, high above Bearsville, which provided panoramic vistas overlooking the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson Valley. Klitgaard joined the artists’ colony in the area, which at the time included artists Ernest Fiene and Katherine Schmidt.
Klitgaard exhibited widely and her career slowly developed momentum. She was a regular contributor at Whitney Museum shows from 1927 to 1944. In 1929, she exhibited a painting entitled “Carousel” in the Whitney Studio Club’s famous exhibition “Circus in Paint.” Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney acquired five paintings by Klitgaard in the early 1930s and served as a significant patron for the artist. Klitgaard s New York dealer, Frank Rehn...
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"War Brides, Wash Sq NYC" American Scene WWII Modernism WPA Mid-Century Oil
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
"War Brides, Wash Sq NYC" American Scene WWII Modernism WPA Mid-Century Oil. 30 x 40 inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1942. Signed lower right. Titled on the stretcher. Housed in a sensational Heydenryk frame.
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"Truck Gardens" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Country Landscape With Train
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Truck Gardens
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
26 x 36 inches
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"Newton’s Farm" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Hazy Autumn Landscape Painting
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Newton’s Farm
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
24 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches
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"Pueblo Indians, Taos, New Mexico" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Figures
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Pueblo Indians, Taos, New Mexico
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches
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"Fodder Stacks, Bearsville" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Country Landscape
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Fodder Stacks, Bearsville
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
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