Georgina Klitgaard (1893 - 1976) Watercolor on Paper, Signed Lower Right, Measures (13.5 x 10.5 inches) w/frame (20.5 x 17.5 inches) Georgina Klitgaard, born in Spuyten Duyvil, New York in 1893, was a very successful painter, muralist and etcher who was friendly with artists Julian Bloch, George Biddle and Eugene Speicher. She studied at the National Academy of Design and Barnard College in New York City. Klitgaard's work has a subtle folk art primitivism combining with expressiveness full of personal symbolism. In her tiny snowy landscape "Bearsville School, New York," only 8 by 10 inches, children play underneath a scraggly tree with the white schoolhouse seemingly startled behind it. The sky is very mystical, which could lead the viewer to believe they are not dealing with your average realist. Klitgaard won awards from Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Pan American Exposition; and San Francisco Art Association, among others. She also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1933. She exhibited year after year at Carnegie Institute, Pensylvania.

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