Beach Head Established, 1944
by Edmond James Fitzgerald
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Exhibited: Painting World War II: The California Style Watercolor Artists, Oceanside Museum of Art, April 18 – October 3, 2010.
About Edmond James Fitzgerald
| (1912-1989) A marine, landscape and portrait painter as well as combat artist during World War II, Edmond J. Fitzgerald was born in Seattle in 1912, one of seven children. He graduated from the California School of Fine Arts where he was a student of Lee Randolph. At age nineteen, Fitzgerald was part of the U.S. Geological Survey Expedition to Alaska, and was so taken with the geography, he returned annually for the next ten years, sometimes in the company of Eustace Ziegler "who influenced him more than any other artist." (Kollar, 2) Ziegler and Fitzgerald had nearby studios on Pier 9 in S... (Read More) |