Robertson Kirtland Mygatt

Robertson K. Mygatt or 'R.K.', (1861–1919) was an American landscape painter and etcher keen at the slope of the 20th century. He is often joined with the Tonalist action which was innate experimented in the atmosphere of in painting during most of his responsive years, having emerged as a bustle in the 1880s that continued through virtually 1915. R. K. Mygatt was born in New York City in 1861, where he studied at the Art Students League of New York taking into consideration noted landscape performer John Henry Twachtman and American impressionist painter William Merritt Chase. He along with studied painting in Europe.

Mygatt specialized in painting landscapes and much of his works could be categorized as impressionism falling below the ‘Tonalist’ style. Tonalism emerged in the 1880s, and he was straightforwardly influenced by the trend. Mygatt was moreover a bright etcher, but his focus throughout his career was most extremely oil painting. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design, the Society of American Artists and the Salmagundi Club in New York City. One of his works was included in the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in St. Louis in 1904, for which he was awarded a silver medal.

For approximately fifty nears after his death, his heirs did not tune his acquit yourself at all. It was not until the mid-1960s that many of them became understandable for sale for the first times after the last of his speak to descendants died. As art historians, the gallery world and the public have become more au fait with Robertson Kirtland Mygatt’s work, he has grown in popularity.

Mygatt resided in Ridgefield, Connecticut, before dying in 1919 at 58 years dated in New York City. He is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Westchester County, New York.