Agnes Gabrielle (McNulty) Tait ART FOR SALE

Artwork by Agnes Gabrielle (McNulty) Tait

1894 New York, New York - 1981 Santa Fe, New Mexico. Known for: Portrait, landscape, mural, still-lives, illustrations.

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Born in Greenwich Village in New York City, Agnes Tait was a painter of landscapes, figures, portraits and decorative panels, as well as a print maker and children's book illustrator. Her style was romantic realist, with some of her works being allegorical. Book illustrations include Heidi in 1947 and Paco's Miracle in 1961. From the age of fourteen, she studied intermittently for ten years (1908-1918) at the National Academy of Design in New York City with Charles Hinton, Francis Jones, and Leon Kroll. In 1930, she received a grant from the United Fruit Company to paint tropical scenes and portraits of natives in Jamaica and Haiti, and in 1932, she painted a series of portraits commissioned by Florenz Ziegfeld of his Follies girls. Tait... Read full biography

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Self Portrait

Type:Painting

Year:circa 1945

Size:10.25" x 12.25"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Right

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Tait lived in New York City and Greenwich Village during the 1920s and 1930s and later moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. George Bellows, the prominent American realist painter, created a lithograph portrait of Agnes Tait. and she was a model for other artists, including Frank Tenny Johnson.

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