Gerald Cassidy (1879-1934)

Gerald Cassidy was born in Kentucky in 1879 and raised in Ohio. He studied with Frank Duveneck who was also the teacher of Joseph Henry Sharp and Walter Ufer. At the age of twenty, he developed pneumonia and was sent to a Sanitarium in Albuquerque. It was here that he fell in love with the light, landscapes and indigenous people of the Southwest. He went to Denver to work as a commercial artist for awhile but returned shortly thereafter to live and work in Santa Fe. He painted everything from small postcards to murals. He won a gold medal at the 1915 Panama-California International Exposition in San Diego for his murals. His paintings celebrate the light and colors of the desert Southwest, and although realistic there is an art-deco edge to them. Tragically, he contacted lead poisoning while painting a mural at the Federal Courthouse in Santa Fe and died in 1934.

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