ARTIST: James C Magee (Pennsylvania, New York, 1846 - 1924)
NAME: Girl with Lute
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Very good. Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 12 x 8 inches / 30 x 20 cm
FRAME SIZE: 14 x 11 inches / 35 x 28 cm
SIGNATURE: Lower right
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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James C Magee (Pennsylvania, New York, 1846 - 1924)
Considered a conservative Pennsylvania landscape artist who spent most of his career in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, artist James C, Magee was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1846. After his early schooling in New York and some private training in the fine arts there, Magee entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1896, spending the next six years taking classes beyond his four year degree and studying with a number of significant American artists who both studied and taught there including Thomas Eakins, Cecelia Beaux, Colin Campbell Cooper, Daniel Garber, Thomas Anshutz, and Edward Lamson Henry. Later in New York City, Magee studied with American Impressionist master, William Merritt Chase, and took classes from Ashcan School painter Robert Henri at the Art Students League.
By 1924, the year of his death, Magee had exhibited groups of his expansive landscapes multiple times at the Art Institute of Chicago, The National Academy of Design, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the avant-garde, Society of Independent Artists, where Magee met and befriended painters William Glackens, John Sloan, watercolorist John Marin and many other new and unknown modern artists from around the world who had gravitated to New York City. Based on a popular French model, the Society was open to anyone who could pay a $ 6.00 membership fee. Its first Annual Exhibition in New York City, April 10 to May 5, 1917, included over 2,000 works exhibited in the order of each artist??™s last name including a large bucolic landscape of the Pennsylvania countryside and farmland near New Hope by James C. Magee.
During this period in his career, Magee also joined the Society of American Artists founded in 1877 by a group of artists who were uncomfortable with the conservatism of the National Academy of Design. At the Society Magee met Robert Swain Gifford, Albert Pinkham Ryder, John Henry Twachtman, Alexander Helwig Wyant and other young and mid-career artists interested in exploring new methods and subject matter in American art. In 1897 a group of some of the most accomplished and progressive painters left the Society and formed a loose confederation called The Ten, comprised of Robert Reid, Edmund Tarbell, Willard Leroy Metcalf, E. E, Simmons, Childe Hassam, J. H. Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, Thomas W. Dewing, Joseph De Camp and Frank W. Benson.
As the Society continued to fade, merging with the National Academy in 1906, more conservative realist, James C. Magee was invited to join the Concord Art Association in Concord, Massachusetts, sometime in 1917, where he first saw the work of Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt. Magee exhibited work at Concord until 1922 when he decided to concentrate on his studio work back in Philadelphia, where he died in 1924 at the age of seventy-eight. James C. Magee in included in every major reference book of the period including The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005. A large body of his work in all media may be found in the Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.