biography of Henry Ryan MACGINNIS (1875-1962)

Birth place: Martinsville, IN

Death place: Fairlee, VT

Addresses: Muncie, IN, 1901; Fairlee, VT, from c.1947

Profession: Painter, teacher

Studied: Royal Acad., Munich, Germany; in Paris, with Collin, Courtois; T.C. Steele; J.O. Adams; W. Forsythe

Exhibited: NAD; AIC; Munich Royal Acad.; Int. Exh., Glass Palace, Munich; Omaha (NE) Expo., 1898; PAFA Ann., 1900, 1909-16, 1925; S. Indp. A., 1917; Sch. Indust. Art, Trenton, 1924 (solo); Richmond, IN, 1929 (prize); Hoosier Salon, 1930 (prize); First Nat. Exh. of Art, Rockefeller Center, NYC, 1936; MacDowell Cl.; AIC; Salma. Cl.; St. Louis Mus.; SAA, NY; Soc. Western Artists; Fleming Mus. (solo); Wood Art Gal. (solo); Carpenter Art Gal., Dartmouth Col. (solo); The Contemporary, Trenton ; NJ State Mus., Trenton, 1983 (retrospective)

Member: AAPL; All. Artists Am.; Audubon Artists; Salmagundi Club; Hoosier Salon; Soc. Indiana Art; Beach Combers Club, Provincetown, MA; Soc. Am. Artists in Paris

Work: State House & Masonic Temple, Trenton, NJ; Lehigh Univ.; Univ. Georgia; Herron AI; Ball State College, Muncie, IN; Customs House, NY; Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; murals, Gregory Sch., Ewing Cemetery Assn., Trenton, NJ; St. Thomas Church, Woodhaven, LI, NY.

Comments: Teaching: Sch. Indust. Art, Trenton, NJ, 1906-46.

Sources: WW59; WW47; WW01; Falk, Exh. Record Series.