Robertson Kirtland Mygatt

Robertson K. Mygatt or 'R.K.', (1861–1919) was an American landscape painter and etcher in action at the face of the 20th century. He is often allied with the Tonalist endeavor which was mammal experimented later in painting during most of his supple years, having emerged as a occupation in the 1880s that continued through very nearly 1915. R. K. Mygatt was born in New York City in 1861, where he studied at the Art Students League of New York past noted landscape artiste 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 under the ‘Tonalist’ style. Tonalism emerged in the 1880s, and he was handily influenced by the trend. Mygatt was along with a talented etcher, but his focus throughout his career was most totally 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 look his enactment at all. It was not until the mid-1960s that many of them became easily reached for sale for the first get older after the last of his adopt descendants died. As art historians, the gallery world and the public have become more familiar with Robertson Kirtland Mygatt’s work, he has grown in popularity.

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