Georgina Klitgaard (1893 – 1976)
August Landscape
24 x 34 inches
Oil on canvas
circa 1930

Georgina Klitgaard
Klitgaard was a very successful painter, muralist and etcher who was friendly with artists Julian Bloch, George Biddle and Eugene Speicher. She studied at the National Academy of Design and Barnard College in New York City. A member of the Woodstock Art Colony, she shared a studio with George Ault.
She exhibited year after year at Carnegie Institute, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and others. She painted Depression-era Works Projects Administration murals in post offices in Pelham, Georgia, and in New York in Goshen and Poughkeepsie. She also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1933.