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Offering this original oil on canvas mountain landscape painting by listed artist Eugene Kingman. His art work is in many collections and has many auction records as well. This painting is in excellent condition with the original frame. The painting is 12 by 16 inches wide and the frame is 17 1/2 by 21 1/2 inches wide. Signed lower left as shown. Beautiful original work of art by a well known artist. Thanks for looking.

EUGENE KINGMAN (1909-1975)

Eugene Kingman was born in Rhode Island in 1909. Throughout his early childhood and formative years in Providence, he showed an immense interest in art and science, while constantly pursuing drawing and painting as a hobby. Later Eugene studied at Yale University, where he received two degrees (in Geology and Fine Arts). While a student at Yale, he achieved national attention with a commission from the National Park Service to paint scenes of several parks — seven of which were displayed at a 1931 exhibition in Paris, France. Four of these paintings (Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Crater Lake and Sequoia) are still displayed in various offices in the Department of Interior and National Park Service in Washington, D.C, while the three other paintings (Mt. Rainier, the Grand Canyon, and Yosemite) are supposedly housed in vaults inside most of those national parks.

Kingman made a name for himself as one of the “Regionalist” American artists during New Deal era. In the 1930s he was awarded another major commission to create spectacular murals in three US Post Offices in East Providence, RI, Hyattsville, MD, and Kemmerer, WY, which are still on display today.

Also during that decade, Kingman continued to be very drawn to Nature’s wonders in the National Parks, especially the ones out West. In fact, he was invited to use his combined scientific and artistic background to illustrate a geographic article in thirteen landscape paintings of Crater Lake and Yosemite National Parks, which were published in the 1937 issue of National Geographic Magazine.

Soon after earning his Fine Arts degree at Yale, this young gifted artist taught lithography and mural painting at the Rhode Island School of Design for three years, In 1939 he married his sweetheart, Elizabeth Yelm Kingman, who had been an anthropologist and park ranger at Mesa Verde National Park. He later became the father of two daughters: Mixie and Elizabeth Anne, and the grandfather of Quinlan.

Following his marriage in 1939, Kingman and his wife moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he became Director of the Philbrook Art Museum. After spending several years there, Kingman joined the Army in 1942 to serve as cartographer for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Washington, D.C. during World War 2.

After the war ended, Kingman was then hired in 1946 to become the Director of the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, where he served for twenty two years. During his career in Omaha, he developed his creative talents even more to become a “pioneer” in various exhibit design projects. In fact, he was invited to consult, plus design exhibits, such as ones at the Smithsonian and at several dams, sponsored by the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Corps of Engineers in the Midwest. Moreover, for the first issue of American Heritage Magazine in 1954, he was asked to write about the Midwest and the painters who had been influenced by the Plains.

While working at Joslyn, another one of Kingman’s most noteworthy commissions happened in 1946, when he was invited by Mr. Arthur Sultzberger, Sr., CEO of the New York Times newspaper, to paint a large mural, which was displayed in the former New York Times building for many years. Using his own skills with maps and murals and consulting with a cartographer, Kingman painted a vast and accurate view of the earth, a challenge since no one in the mid-1940s had ever seen what the earth looked like from space. He added a number of red dots on the map to mark important world cities, like New York, Paris, Tokyo and Omaha, his now-beloved home. The mural was installed in the lobby of the New York Times in 1948 and for the next forty years the art inspired generations of reporters, Times staff members and news-makers who came to call at the venerable newspaper. Later the New York Times took down the mural during a lobby renovation in the late 1980s and after years in the Times archives, the mural was donated to the Joslyn Castle Trust in Omaha. After a community effort to get the mural back to Omaha, it arrived in May 2014, and now awaits restoration at the Ford Conservancy Center in Omaha. At the publisher’s request, Kingman added the lines of poetry, which remain timeless and uplifting: “Every day is a fresh beginning — Every morn is the world made new.”

During Kingman’s time in Omaha, Kingman’s efforts to promote the arts in Nebraska and elsewhere earned him numerous civic awards, and other recognition, including an Honorary Doctorate from Creighton University.

Many folks in Omaha recognized his immense artistic talent and commissioned him to do a number of paintings, which were exhibited in several of Joslyn Art Museum’s galleries as a special memorial tribute to him, following his death in 1975 while he was working as an Interim Director and Special Exhibit Design Consultant at Texas Tech University’s Museum. Thus Kingman’s paintings currently are hanging on many walls throughout the U.S — in museums, in various Department of Interior and National Park Service offices, in U.S. Post Offices, and in a number of living rooms, including the Nebraska Governor’s Mansion.

Finally, it should be mentioned that while in all the places he lived, Kingman reflected the spirit of “plein air” painters. That is, he felt it was important to be directly outdoors on site as he painted or sketched, although he often finished his artwork in his home studio. This native New Englander deeply loved the people, the scenery and the culture of not only his father’s farmland in New Hampshire and in National Parks, but also his home in Nebraska. While he was busy during his career in various museums, he spent evenings and weekends painting in the area, fascinated by light on cornfields, water, mountains, trees, and shadows on barns. His paintings, lithographs, murals and exhibit designs all reflect his deep affection for nature in the Midwest, as well as in New England and in National Parks. They were acquired as prized possessions, and continue to be treasured by many.

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