Gerald R. Cassidy

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Cassidy in 1920.

Gerald Cassidy (1869 - 1934) was an early 20th-century artist, muralist and designer who lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Biography

He was born in Covington, Kentucky on November 10, 1869 as Ira Dymond Gerald Cassidy.[1] He received his training at the Institute of Mechanical Arts, and the Art Students League in New York.[2] He moved to Santa Fe in 1912 where he met Edgar L. Hewett, founding director of the Museum of New Mexico. Hewett commissioned him to paint his first mural at the Panama-California International Exposition.[3] Cassidy also created the mural Dawn of the West and Parfet Park in Golden, Colorado, where he was an honorary member of the Golden Kiwanis Club. He died on February 12, 1934 as a result of turpentine and carbon monoxide poisoning from a newly installed natural gas heater in his studio[4] while working on a mural art project for the dome of the federal building at Santa Fe.

References

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  1. ↑ Robertson, Edna (1977). Gerald Cassidy 1869-1934. Museum of New Mexico. p. 3. 
  2. ↑ "New Mexico Art Tells New Mexico History". Cui Bono?. New Mexico Museum of Art. Retrieved 16 January 2014. 
  3. ↑ Udall, Sharyn R. (1987). Santa Fe Art Colony, 1900-1942. p. 82. ISBN 0935037152. 
  4. ↑ Robertson, Edna; Nestor, Sarah (2005). Artists of the Canyons and Caminos: Santa Fe: Early Twentieth Century. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. p. 36. ISBN 1-4236-0114-9. 
  • Jefferson County Republican newspaper edition of March 1, 1934.


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