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Item #AT-00515Gertrude Klein Magie (1862-1942) "The Ferryman" Oil on Canvas
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Description:
Gertrude Klein Magie (1862-1942)
“The Ferryman”
Oil on Canvas
20 x 40 inches unframed
34.5 x 50 inches Framed (wonderful period frame)
Signed lower right M. Gertrude.
This painting is done after “The Ferryman” by Paul Léon Gagneau (1848 - c.19100. He painted this piece for the World’s Fair at The Palace of Fine Arts, St Louis in 1904. It depicts a women and child waiting to cross the river. Painted with thick impasto.
Provenance:
Estate Holmdel NJ.
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Gertrude Klein (Magie) was born on October 1, 1862 in Trenton, New Jersey. She was the daughter of John Frederick Klein and Catherine "Kate" Jane Wiggins. Gertrude married John Maclean Magie in 1903 [maiden name and marriage year source: John Maclean Magie obituary, Princeton Alumni Weekly vol XIX, no. 15, p. 314]
Gertrude was an artist who specialized in portraits, landscapes and etchings. In 1931 four of her intaglio prints (City Square, Courtyard, Landscape/Seashore, La Mere Laborleuse) were included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in NY. She is included in the collection of Princeton Museum, and the Cantor Arts Center in Stanford University. She was a pupil of William Merritt Chase and Henri Morriset.
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The Princeton University Department of Rare Books and Special Collections includes Selected Papers of Gertrude Magie, which includes five diaries covering the period 1917-1938. Gertrude's husband was in Princeton class of 1892, and was a staff journalist of the NY Tribune and a contributor to Harper's Weekly.
She passed away in Philadelphia September 24, 1942.
Source: Find a Grave, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Princeton Museum, Ancestry.com
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