Thomas Furlong (artist)
Thomas (Tomas) Furlong | |
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Born | February 28, 1886 St.Louis, Missouri |
Died | 1952 Bolton Landing, New York |
Nationality | Scotch Irish American |
Education | Art Students League |
Known for | Painting, Muralist |
Movement | Modern art, Realism, impressionism |
Patron(s) | Oliver Gould Jennings Hyde Collection, Bolton Museum, Weber Furlong Foundation, Studio 98, |
Thomas (Tomas) Furlong (1886–1952) was a Scotch Irish American artist and teacher.[1][2]
Biography
Furlong was a member of the executive Board of Control of the Art Students League and beginning in 1927 an art instructor at New York University. He was married to Wilhelmina Weber Furlong. In the American modern art movement, his significant circle of friends and acquaintances included John Graham,[3] Wilem de Kooning, David Smith,[3] Dorothy Dehner,[3] Jean Charolot, Alexander Calder, Rockwell and Sally Kent, Thomas Hart Benton, Allen Tucker, Max Weber (artist), Kimon Nicolaidies, and many others.[4] Thomas Furlong lived and worked in New York, City and shared a gallery with his wife Wilhelmina Weber Furlong. He was a realist and an accomplished muralist.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Biography of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong: The Treasured Collection of Golden Heart Farm by Clint Bernard Weber, ISBN 978-0-9851601-0-4
- ↑ Professor Emeritus James K. Kettlewell: Harvard,Skidmore College,Curator The Hyde Collection. Foreword to The Treasured Collection of Golden Heart Farm. ISBN 978-0-9851601-0-4
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Smithsonian Archives of American Art Oral history interviews with Dorothy Dehner, 1965 Oct.-1966
- ↑ Smithsonian Archives of American Art Detailed description of the Ben Benn papers, 1905-1993
External links
- Articles with hCards
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- Still life painters
- Cubism
- American realist painters
- Art Students League of New York people
- Art Students League of New York alumni
- 20th-century American painters
- Art educators
- Artists from New York City
- 1886 births
- 1952 deaths
- People from Bolton Landing, New York