About Joseph McGurl

  • Biography

    A landscape painter in the tradition of 19th-century luminist painters, Joseph McGurl is a founding member of the New American Luminists. He was the youngest artist ever to be designated as a Copley Master by the Copley Society of Boston, which gave him the John Singleton Copley Award. He is an elected member of the Guild of Boston Artists and is a winner of the Guild's Grumbacher Gold Medallion. Much of his painting is done on Cape Cod.

    McGurl was raised in Quincy, Massachusetts and studied at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Massachusetts College of Art, the University of London summer program, the Boston University Summer program in Florence and with Boston artist Robert Cormier.

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