Michael J. Gallagher (artist)

Michael J. Gallagher (American Artist) born Scranton, PA 1898-died Philadelphia, PA 1965.

Gallagher was born into a mining family in Scranton, PA where he lived until he associated the U.S. Army in World War I. In 1919, Gallagher was diagnosed in the sky of tuberculosis and returned home to be treated. A doctor noticed Gallagher’s enormous artistic capability and suggested that he apply for scholarships to attend the Philadelphia Museum and School of Industrial Art. Gallagher followed this advice and began his formal art training. After graduating, Gallagher made his full of beans as a magazine illustrator.

During the Great Depression, President Roosevelt and congress passed multiple perform relief programs, Roosevelt commenced a $5 billion program called Works Progress Administration (WPA), which sought to employee Americans in various fields including artists under the Federal Arts Project(FAP)
In 1935, Gallagher was hired as obscure director of the Philadelphia Printmaking branch of the WPA art project. Along with extra WPA artists Dox Thrash and Hugh Mesibov, helped to swashbuckler a additional technique of print making, the carborundum printmaking or carbograph.

Gallagher is known for his paintings, lithographs, woodcuts and sticker album illustrations. He was nimble at both figure studies and landscapes.
Work by Gallagher are in the steadfast collections the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Public Library, the Everhart Museum, Scranton, and Princeton University, Museum, New Jersey.