Santa Fe Art Colony, 1900-1942 by Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall

On January 12, 1910, he married Perlina Sizer Davis. He was married twice first to Sarah Craus Snowden. Pablo Picasso chose one of Cassidy's pieces from a show for inclusion in the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. ĭuring the mid-twenties Cassidy traveled in Europe, and his pieces were well thought of by the European public. Cassidy also created the mural Dawn of the West and the Parfet Park memorial in Golden, Colorado, where he was an honorary member of the Golden Kiwanis Club. At the 1915 Panama-California International Exposition in San Diego Cassidy was awarded the gold medal for his murals, the largest award he would win in his lifetime. He painted the Navajo in works that were primarily transferred to postcards or posters. Hewett commissioned him to paint his first mural at the Panama-California International Exposition. Hewett, founding director of the Museum of New Mexico. In 1912 he moved and settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he met Edgar L. His first work using American Indian and Western subjects was heavily art deco, and a deco edge would remain in his work even as it developed into a more solidly realist style.Ĭassidy moved from Albuquerque to Denver to work as a lithographer. It was here that he first saw the people and places of the American Southwest, the subject matter that he would dedicate his entire life's work to after this point. Īt the same moment that Cassidy was first finding success, he contracted a life-threatening case of pneumonia and was moved to a sanitarium in Albuquerque in 1890. He studied art at the Institute of Mechanical Arts under Frank Duveneck, and the Art Students League in New York. Gerald Cassidy (Novem– February 12, 1934) was an early 20th-century artist, muralist, and designer who lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Ĭassidy was born in Covington, Kentucky, on November 10, 1869, as Ira Dymond Gerald Cassidy. Art Student's League of New York National Academy of Design

Santa Fe Art Colony, 1900-1942 by Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall