Sears Gallagher

Lugar de nacimiento: Boston

Lugar de defunción: West Roxbury, MA

Direcciones: West Roxbury, Boston; Monhegan Island, ME

Profesión: Painter, etcher, educator

Estudios: in Boston with S. P. R. Triscott and Tomasso Juglaris,1880s; Académie Julian with J. P. Laurens and B. Constant, in Paris, 1895.

Exposiciones: Boston AC, 1887-1909; Paris Salon, 1896; Boston City Club, 1915; Doll & Richards Gal., Boston, 1915-on; PAFA, 1900-03, 1912, 1916; Kennedy Gal., 1918; Goodspeed's, Boston (monograph), 1920; AIC, 1922 (gold medal); Calif. PM, 1929 (med); City of Boston Tercentenary, 1930 (medal); Jordan Marsh Co., Boston, 1937 (med); Falk Gallery, Madison, CT, 1999 (retrospective). Awards: Mitton medal, 1937

Asociaciones: Gld. Boston Artists; Boston SWC Painters; SAGA; Chicago SE; AFA.

Obra: BMFA; AIC; Honolulu Acad. Art; LOC; NYPL; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

Comentarios: He descended from a long line of Pilgrim ancestors, including Gov. William Bradford. He created his first etching in 1888. In 1911, he produced a series of Boston scenes which launched his fame as a master etcher. He was an early member of the artists colony on Monhegan Island, where, beginning around 1898, he summered continuously for more than fifty years. He is also known for his autumnal watercolors of New Hampshire"s White Mountains, near Jackson. Position: instructor, watercolor painting, Boston (MA) Univ.

Fuentes: WW53; exh. cat. & checklist, Goodspeed's Boston, 1920; Peter Falk, catalogue raisonnÈ, Sound View Press, 1999; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 345; The Boston AC; Falk, Exh. Record Series.