Margit Varga
Margit Varga | |
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| 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 |
| Occupations | Artist, gallerist, art editor, art director, journalist |
| Spouse | Laszlo Kormendi |
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] Varga worked for Time magazine for 40 years.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Margit Varga was born on May 5, 1908, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, to parents from Hungary.[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]
Varga established the Painters' and Sculptors' Gallery at 22 East 11th Street in Manhattan 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 lived in a townhouse at 739 Washington Street in the West Village until 1995, when she sold the building to Dorothy Lichtenstein.[11]
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,[12] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[13] and Gilcrease Museum.[14]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Margit Varga papers, 1931-1985 from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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