Fred Nagler

Fred Nagler was born in 1891 at Springfield, Massachusetts, where he first studied wood carving. From 1914 to 1917, he studied at the Art Student's League in New York City, where his professors included Tom Fogerty, Frank Dumond, George Bridgman, and Robert Henri.

At the Art Student's League he won the Bridgman Scholarship and Annual Portrait Prize, a competition juried by George Bellows and John Sloan. Subsequently, he became a member of the Art Student's League Board of Control. In 1940 he became president of the Bronx Art League.

Mr. Nagler was offered many positions during his career, including Chairman of the Art Department of the Connecticut College for Women, (upon the death of Grant Wood), Chairman of the University of Iowa State, and Chairman of the Art Department of the Eastman School of Art.

Fred Nagler won four of the major awards given by artist juries: The Payne Gold Medal and Purchase Prize at a Virginia Museum Biennial; the Clark Prize of $1,500. and Silver Medal at a Corcoran Biennial; the first Altman Figure Prize at a National Academy Annual, and a $1,000. grant from the Academy of Arts and Letters.

AWARDS

Childe Hassam Purchase Award, American Academy of Art and Letters

Halgarten Prize, National Academy of Design, (for an artist under 35)

John Barten Payne Gold Medal and Purchase, Virginia Museum

Clark Prize, $1,500. and Silver Medal, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Altman Prize, $2,000., National Academy of Design

Carnegie Prize, National Academy of Design

Lamont Prize, Audubon Artists

Fabre Prize, Audubon Artists

First Prize, Museum of Springfield, Massachusetts

First Prize, New Haven Museum

WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

United States Embassies around the world

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

National Academy of Design, New York

Metropolitan Museum, New York

Nebraska Art Museum

The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California

Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Dwight Chapel, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Holy Redeemer Church, Reading, Pennsylvania

University of Texas, Austin, Texas

Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Christ Church, Riverdale, New York City

Riverdale Presbyterian Church, New York City

Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana

Faith Church, Springfield, Massachusetts

The Wesley Foundation of Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Hicksville, Long Island, New York

The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City

Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Republic National Bank, Dallas, Texas

EXHIBITIONS

1953 Painting in the U.S.A. 1721 - 1953, The Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, California

1963 30 Years of Religious Paintings by Fred Nagler, Midtown Galleries, New York

1970 Audubon Artists 28, 28th Annual Exhibition

1972 Fred Nagler Religious and Figurative Paintings, Midtown Galleries, New York

1977 Audubon Artists 35, 35th Annual Exhibition