Margit Varga (1908–2005) was an American artist, gallerist, journalist, art director, and art editor.[2][3] Her artwork has been described as "magical realism" and her work was known in the New York City-area and in Europe.[4] Varga owned a Midtown art gallery for emerging artists in the 1930s. She was an art authority and served as a judge for art exhibitions in the 1930s and 1940s.[5] For 40 years, Varga worked for Time magazine.
Margit Varga | |
|---|---|
| Born | Margaret Varga[1] May 5, 1908[1] New York City, New York, U.S.[1] |
| Died | April 8, 2005 (aged 96) |
| Education | National Academy of Design, Art Students League of New York |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, gallerist, art editor, art director, journalist |
| Spouse | Laszlo Kormendi |
Biography
editMargit Varga was born on May 5, 1908, in the Upper East Side in New York City, to parents from Hungary.[6][7][1] She studied art at the National Academy of Design; and at the Art Students League of New York, under Boardman Johnson and Robert Laurent.[6][7]
She owned the Painters' and Sculptors' Gallery at 22 East 11th Street in Midtown in 1932.[6][8][9] The gallery showed emerging artists for the next 3 years.[7][9] Varga worked for 40 years as an art editor and art director of Time magazine, starting in 1936.[10][4]
Varga died on April 8, 2005, in Naples, Florida.[4] Her artwork can be found in museum collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[4] Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,[11] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[12] and Gilcrease Museum.[13]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "VARGA, Margaret (Margit)". American Women. 3. 1939.
- ^ Journal of the Archives of American Art. Vol. 28. Archives of American Art. 1988.
- ^ Varga, Margit. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. 2011-10-31. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00188584. ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7.
- ^ a b c d "Death Notices: Margit Varga, Naples, FL". The Naples Daily News. 2005-04-12. p. 18. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
- ^ "Art Authority on Survey Visit, Margit Varga Tells Impression Made by Coast Painters in East". The Los Angeles Times. 1940-08-06. p. 20. Retrieved 2022-07-31.
- ^ a b c Kirwin, Liza; McNaught, William; Brown, Robert F.; Karlstrom, Paul J.; Pacini, Marina (1988). "Regional Reports". Archives of American Art Journal. 28 (4): 34–40. doi:10.1086/aaa.28.4.1557619. ISSN 0003-9853. JSTOR 1557619. S2CID 222434640.
- ^ a b c "Margit Varga papers". Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives (SOVA), Archives of American Art. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
- ^ "Hungarian-American Art Seen". The New York Times. 1932-01-06. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
- ^ a b "Artist Helps Others Arrive, Margit Varga Opens Gallery to Show Work of Little Known Artists". Arizona Daily Star. 1932-01-14. p. 15. Retrieved 2022-07-31.
- ^ Grant, Florence; Jordanova, Ludmilla (2020-11-12). Writing Visual Histories. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-350-02346-8.
- ^ "Margit Varga, "Going Fishing " (1944)". PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 2014-12-28. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
- ^ "Main Street, Brewster, 1941". The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- ^ "Waldo Peirce / by Margit Varga". Gilcrease Museum. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
External links
edit- Margit Varga papers, 1931-1985 from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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