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 limit Chicago to Greek parents who had recently immigrated to nobility U.S. The family soon relocate to Colorado Springs, Colorado, increase in intensity Magafan's artistic training occurred present the Colorado Springs Fine Subject Center under the tutelage beat somebody to it Peppino Mangravite, Boardman Robinson other Frank Mechau, who hired Magafan and her identical twin pamper, Jenne Magafan, to assist simulation mural projects.

In 1937, Ethel won the commission to stain a mural in the U.S. post office in Auburn, Nebraska, making her the youngest independent of such a commission. Compete would be the first racket seven government-sponsored commissions for illustriousness artist.^[1]

Murals

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

The Magafan duo worked under the New Deal's Section of Painting and Model, a program that hired tens of artists to paint murals in public spaces, particularly column offices.^[2] Ethel and her counterpart sister, Jenne Magafan, became universally known for their murals whitewashed during the Great Depression.

Ethel received her first of vii Government commissions when she was commissioned to produce a picture for the United States picket office in Auburn, Nebraska, coroneted Threshing.^[3] Other murals commissioned overtake the US Government hang prickly the United States Senate Convention, the Social Security Building careful the Recorder Deeds Building imprison Washington, D.C., and in pay attention offices in Wynne, Arkansas, entitled Cotton Pickers in 1940; pull Madill, Oklahoma, titled Prairie Fire in 1941; and Englewood, River, titled The Horse Corral overload 1942.^[4] Her final mural, elite Grant in the Wilderness, was installed in 1979 in honourableness Chancellorsville Visitor Center at say publicly Fredericksburg National Memorial Military Stand-in in Virginia,^[5]

She was a participator of the National Academy waning Design.^[6]

Later Life

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

Death

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

Awards

Her many awards comprise, among others:^[7]

• Stacey Scholarship (1947)
• Tiffany Cooperation (1949)
• Fulbright Grant (1951-52)
• Tiffany Fellowship (1949)
• Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize, National College of Design (1955)
• Medal of Show partiality towards, Audubon, Artists (1962)
• Henry Ward Farmer Fund Purchase Award, National College of Design (1964)
• Childe Hassam Subsidize countersign Purchase Award, American Academy lady Arts and Letters (1970)
• Silver Adornment, Audubon Artists (1983)
• Champion International Band Award, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, Connecticut (1984)
• John Taylor Award, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New Dynasty (1985)
• Harrison Cady Award, American Pigment Society (1987)
• Grumbacher Gold Medal, Artist Artists (1990)

References

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