Ethel Magafan
Ethel Magafan's Landscape Paintings
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| And No Birds Sing egg tempera on masonite Size: 40" x 60" |
Canyon Cascade egg tempera on masonite Size: 96" x 48" |
Cascade egg tempera on masonite Size: 48" x 36" |
Morning in the Mountains egg tempera on masonite Size: 36" x 74" |
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| Mountain Face egg tempera on masonite Size: 14" x 36" |
Mountains Above the Meadow egg tempera on masonite Size: 22" x 36" |
Mountain Forms egg tempera on masonite Size: 14" x 36" |
Over All the Peaks is Silence egg tempera on masonite Size: 40" x 78" |
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| Remote Place egg tempera on masonite Size: 24" x 41" |
Summer Wind egg tempera on masonite Size: 18" x 42" |
Ethel Magafan's Civil War Works
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| Civil War Ink Sketch 2 medium: ink sketch Size: 13" x 10" |
Civil War Ink Sketch 15 medium: ink sketch Size: 10" x 13.25" |
Color Design of Full Mural egg tempera on masonite Size: 24" x 40" |
Five Officers egg tempera on masonite Size: 26" x 32" |
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| Four Soldiers and a Drummer Boy egg tempera on masonite Size: 42" x 30" |
Four Soldiers in the Wilderness egg tempera on masonite Size: 27" x 48" |
Hancock's Men in the Wilderness egg tempera on masonite Size: 29" x 27" |
The Flag Passing By egg tempera on masonite Size: 37" x 47" |
Biography
Ethel Magafan (1916-1993) began her successful career in Colorado as a muralist in the Federal Government programs of the 1930's. When the programs ended in the early 1940's, she reinvented her career, becoming a successful artist exhibiting and selling her paintings in galleries. While still in her 20's she debuted in a New York gallery and established herself as a working artist first in Los Angeles and then in Woodstock, N.Y. She is represented in the following public collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.C., Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., National Academy of Design, N.Y.C., just to name a few. Magafan's mural instillations include: The Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C., Recorder of Deeds Building, Washington, D.C., Chencellorsville National Military Park, Fredericksburg, VA, among others.