Edmond Fitzgerald

(American, 1912-1989)

Edmond Fitzgerald was born in Seattle in 1912. He studied art at the California School of Fine Arts and with Mark Tobey and Eustace Ziegler. Fitzgerald served 26 years in the United States Naval Reserve and has had numerous combat art assignments. He is a past president of the Allied Artist of America and the American Watercolor Society. Also, he is a member of the Salmagundi Club, The Artist’s Fellowship and the National Society of Mural Painters. He died in 1989.

Studied

Calif. School FA, and with Eustace Paul Ziegler, Mark Tobey.

Member

NSMP; AWS (1st vice-pres.); Art Fellowship (vice-pres.); NAD; SC; Allied Artists Am.

Exhibited

AWS; CGA; NAD; SFMA; Portland (OR) Mus. of Art; SAM; Audubon Artists; Hudson Valley AA; Grand Central Art Gal. Awards: prizes, NSMP, 1946; SC, 1950; medal, Hudson Valley AA, 1952;grand prize, Art: USA, 1958; Allied Artists of Am., 1957; gold medal, Hudson Valley AA, 1958; PAFA, 1962.

Work

Nat. Mus., Washington, DC; Anchorage Mus.; Frye Mus.; Navy Combat Art Collection; Univ. Alaska Mus., George Washington Univ.; SAM; IBM; Washington State College;Sheldon Swope Art Gal.; Mus.New Britain Inst.; George Washington Univ.; State Teachers College, New Paltz, NY; murals, USPO, Ontario, OR; Colville, WA; Preston, ID; Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.; Seaman’s Church Inst.,NY; Freeport Sulhur Co.; Chrysler Bldg., NY; White Laboratories, Kenilworth, NJ; murals: Crawford Junior College, New Jersey; Chemical Construction Corporation, New York; AMNH; Freeport Sulphur Co., NY, National Bank, Union, NJ; White Laboratories, Kenilworth, NJ. Painting, "Sunlight in the Timber,"purchased by the White House, Wash., DC, is now in the Roosevelt Library, NYC.

Resources

WW59; WW47; Falk, Exh. Record Series; addl info courtesy Martin-Zambito Fine Art, Seattle, WA; www.askart.com.