James Gahagan
James Gahagan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1927 Brooklyn, New York City |
| Died | July 7, 1999 |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Spouse | Pat deGogorza |
| Website | http://www.jamesgahagan.com/ |
James Gahagan (1927 – July 7, 1999) was an American
Biography
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Gahagan was born in
Gahagan's work was being exhibited in New York, Provincetown, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Paris. In America specifically it is found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, and the University of California Art Museum in Berkeley. It was also featured in a 1957 travelling exhibition to 64 nations funded by the United Nations, and chosen by Art News for a 1959 exhibit of twelve Americans in Spoleto, Italy, at the same time he was awarded a Longview Purchase Grant.[1]
In 1962, Gahagan was one leader of an artists strike which succeeded in gaining zoning for artists' lofts in New York City, such as Westbeth,[1] and co-founding the Artists Tenant Association.[2] Gahagan taught art at a number of universities in America from 1965 onwards, including the Pratt Institute, Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts and Goddard College as Chairman of the Art Department.
The James Gahagan School of Fine Arts was opened from 1971–1974