James Daugherty
American painter
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James Henry Daugherty (June 1, 1889 – February 21, 1974) was an American modernist painter, muralist, children's book author and illustrator. [1]
Life
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Daugherty was born in Asheville, North Carolina . He later lived in Indiana , Ohio , and at the age of 9 he moved to Washington, D.C. , where he studied at the Corcoran School of Art . Later, he went to London and studied under Frank Brangwyn . [2] During World War I , he was commissioned to produce propaganda posters for various US Government agencies, including the United States Shipping Board .
Daugherty wrote and illustrated several children's books during his career, and his book Daniel Boone won the Newbery Medal . [3] His book with Benjamin Elkin, Gillespie and the Guards , won the Caldecott Honor in 1957. [4] He was also the author of Walt Whitman 's America Selections and Drawings by James Daugherty . He died in Boston, Massachusetts .
Four huge murals by James Daugherty, entitled "The Spirit of Pageantry — Africa", "The Spirit of Drama — Europe", "The Spirit of Cinema — America", and "The Spirit of Fantasy — Asia" are located in the State Theatre which is part of the beautiful Playhouse Square theater district in downtown Cleveland, Ohio . [ citation needed ]
In September 2006, controversy erupted at Hamilton Avenue School, an elementary school in Greenwich, Connecticut , over Daugherty's depiction of the Bunker Hill hero and Connecticut native Israel Putnam in a mural commissioned by Public Works of Art Project for the town hall, and installed in the school in 1935. The mural was restored, and revealed a scene, filled with violent and richly colored imagery, including snarling animals, tomahawk-wielding American Indians and a half-naked General Putnam strapped to a burning stake. School officials objected to the violent imagery and ordered the mural removed to the Greenwich Public Library. [5]
References
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- ↑ "James Daugherty, Artist, Dead; Children's Book Author Was 84" , The New York Times , February 22, 1974.
- ↑ "James Henry Daugherty Papers" , Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota
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Newbery Medal Books: 1922–1955
, eds. Bertha Mahony Miller, Elinor Whitney Field, Horn Book, 1955, LOC 55-13968, pp. 1176–84.
- "Translated Newbery titles | Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)" . ALA . Retrieved 2013-05-08 . - ↑ "Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938-Present | Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)" . ALA . Retrieved 2013-05-08 .
- ↑ Matthew J. Malone, "Painting Called Too Violent for Children Won’t Return" , The New York Times , September 29, 2006.
- Citations
- Biographical Sketch . University of Minnesota . Retrieved April 8, 2020.
- Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present . American Library Association . Retrieved July 7, 2006.
External links
- The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, Yale Gallery
- Heroic America: James Daugherty's Mural Drawings from the 1930s
- WPA Mural Studies
- "The Mural in the Gym" , Collecting Children's Books , November 3, 2009
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