James Daugherty  1889-1974

Education:
Corcoran School of Art
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, with Chase, Anshutz, Breckenridge

Exhibitions:
Fairfield University
Society of Independent Artists
University of Minnesota
Macbeth Gallery
Schoelkopf Gallery
Janet Marqusee
Salons of America
Silvermine Guild
Bridgeport Art League
Stamford Historical Society
Vassar College, Loeb Art Center

Collections:
National Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
Museum of Modern Art
Yale University Art Gallery
Hirshhorn Museum
New York Public Library
Wilmington Public Library
Montclair Museum
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
Achenbach Foundation

Commentary:
James Daugherty was associated with and inspired by the Synchromist work of Morgan Russell and Stanton MacDonald-Wright early in the twentieth century. From 1905 to 1907 Daugherty traveled in Europe and studied mural painting with Frank Brangwyn at the London School of Art. Daugherty devoted the balance of his career to mural painting, often on a grand scale. His murals and their related studies are complex compositions of writhing figures in fragmented industrial or rural landscapes. While his murals are often compared with those of Thomas Hart Benton, it is Daugherty’s Synchromist sense of color which sets his work clearly apart.


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