by Michael J. Gallagher, c. 1937
Etching and Aquatint
8 1/4 x 11 inches
Philadelphia Graphic Arts Division
WPA Arts Project
Michael J. Gallagher 1898-1968
About my grandfather: "Noted for scenes of the city life and the Pennsylvania coal mining region, Michael J. Gallagher was director of the Philadelphia Works Progress Administration’s Printmaking Workshop. There, with Dox Thrash and Hugh Mesibov, he was instrumental in the development of a new intaglio process, the carborundum print. Work by Michael J. Gallagher is in the permanent collections the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Dc, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Public Library, the Everhart Museum, Scranton, and Princeton University, Museum, New Jersey."
From Susan Teller Gallery
Portfolio
Coal Mining Prints Portfolio on Flickr
Prints Available for Purchase
Biography
Michael Gallagher Biography
Online Exhibition
Labor Day: WPA Paintings from the Great Depression
Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art Print Collection, New York, NY
The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Philadelphia Museum of Art Print and Drawing Collection
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Detroit Institue of Art, Detroit, MI
Feldacker Labor Art Collection, Saint Louis, MO
The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Indiana State University Art Museum WPA Collection, IN
Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
Mutli-Generational Projects
Reference
WMAA: Homage to American Workers
American Scenes: WPA-Era Prints from the 1930s and 40s
Teaching tool: National Gallery of Art Video