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Eugene Kingman (1909-1975) was a truly exceptional, amazing artist during the “New Deal” era, as well as a museum director later during his life. The profile Preserving His Legacy describes the life and career of this  immensely creative and gifted person.

 

A NIGHT WITH EUGENE KINGMAN

On April 26, 2023, the Joslyn Castle in Omaha, Nebraska hosted a sold-out event that focused on the career of Eugene Kingman. Maureen McCann Waldron gave a polished and well-received presentation that highlighted Kingman’s remarkably broad career. Her talk was illustrated with photographs of many of Kingman’s works. The Joslyn Castle supplemented this presentation with a display of selected paintings of Kingman from local private collections. Program. Photos. Video.

 

 

 

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Major Works

This site is designed to honor Eugene Kingman’s legacy and highly creative artistic gifts. Over time it will be developed to provide a catalog raissoné of the artist’s works.

MURALS

Eugene Kingman won three commissions from the United States Treasury Art Project during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal era in the 1930s to create murals, which are still displayed in the main lobby of U.S. Post Offices in Kemmerer, WY, Hyattsville, MD, and East Providence, RI.

A special mural, which Eugene Kingman painted in 1948, was displayed in the New York Times lobby for over 40 years. Donated to the Joslyn Castle Trust in Omaha Nebraska for restoration, this  Eugene Kingman/New York Times Mural now has a new permanent home in the Omaha Public Library.

PAINTINGS

Seven National Park Paintings for the 1931 Paris Expo – NPS Symposium Poster – Celebrating the 2016 National Park Service Centennial in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

An overview of Kingman’s Nebraska paintings can be found in Kingman’s Nebraska, a collection constituting the celebrated artist’s tribute to the Great Prairie-Plains of Mid 20th Century Nebraska.

Also, a fascinating article and 13 images of Eugene Kingman’s oil paintings in this 1937 issue of National Geographic Magazine, featuring both Yosemite  and Crater Lake National Parks.

ILLUSTRATIONS

As an undergraduate at Yale Eugene Kingman contributed regularly to The Yale Record. This magazine, established in 1872, was a leading college humor magazine for over a hundred years. Kingman’s illustrations are documented with comments by author and archivist Donald Watson, The Yale Record Corporation.

 

 

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