An illustrator in the 1970s for publications including Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Time and The New York Times, Alan Magee, now a painter and printmaker, was born in 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He... Read full biography
An illustrator in the 1970s for publications including Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Time and The New York Times, Alan Magee, now a painter and printmaker, was born in 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He also illustrated covers for books by Bernard Malamud, Agatha Christie, Yukio Mishima and Graham... Read full biography
An illustrator in the 1970s for publications including Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Time and The New York Times, Alan Magee, now a painter and printmaker, was born in 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He also illustrated covers for books by Bernard Malamud, Agatha Christie, Yukio Mishima and Graham Greene. Magee studied at Bucks County Community College, the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia College of Art. He lives and works in Maine. Early in his career as a painter of... Read full biography
An illustrator in the 1970s for publications including Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Time and The New York Times, Alan Magee, now a painter and printmaker, was born in 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He also illustrated covers for books by Bernard Malamud, Agatha Christie, Yukio Mishima and Graham Greene. Magee studied at Bucks County Community College, the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia College of Art. He lives and works in Maine. Early in his career as a painter of realistic images, Magee rebelled against the prevalent abstraction to focus on realistic style and academic composition. For subject matter, he favored stones found on New England beaches. In the late 1980s, influenced by the technique and social... Read full biography
An illustrator in the 1970s for publications including Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Time and The New York Times, Alan Magee, now a painter and printmaker, was born in 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He also illustrated covers for books by Bernard Malamud, Agatha Christie, Yukio Mishima and Graham Greene. Magee studied at Bucks County Community College, the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia College of Art. He lives and works in Maine. Early in his career as a painter of realistic images, Magee rebelled against the prevalent abstraction to focus on realistic style and academic composition. For subject matter, he favored stones found on New England beaches. In the late 1980s, influenced by the technique and social commentary of Hannah Hoch's 1920 photo-montages, he began producing collaged mono-prints with a... Read full biography
Alan Magee - Artist Info
About Alan Magee: Books
Books & Publications (13)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Alan Magee, Paintings, Sculpture, Graphics (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Lopez, Barry (essay)
0 pages
The Mystery of Form: Alan Magee
2000
Little, Carl
16 pages (color)
Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies
1996
Strueber, Michael (Director)
118 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Alan Magee Selected Works1981-199 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Farnsworth Art Museum
64 pages (color)
Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
196 pages (color)
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
The Fine Line Drawing with Silver in America (Exhibition catalog)