About Herman Maril

  • Biography

    An American Regionalist painter and long-time teacher at the University of Maryland, he did paintings that emphasize clarity, simplicity and are created with broad, flat, color masses in a style related to Cubism. He was discovered in the 1930s in Washington D.C. art circles that included Duncan Phillips of the The Phillips Collection.

    Maril was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and received his early training at the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts. He worked for the WPA artists program during the Depression, and his work is in numerous collections including the Metropolitan and Whitney Museums in New York; the National Museum of American Art, The Phillips Collection, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C.; and in Baltimore, the Baltimor...

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