biography of Robert McGill MACKALL (1889-1982)

Birth place: Baltimore, MD

Addresses: Baltimore, MD

Profession: Painter, educator, designer, craftsperson

Studied: Maryland Inst.; ASL; Royal Acad. A., Munich, and Académie Julian, Paris with Jean Paul Laurens, 1912; Acad. Colarossi; also with Richard E. Miller in Paris.

Exhibited: Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1919, 1923; PAFA Ann., 1920; CMA; NAD; WFNY, 1939; Paris Salon; NYWCC; Arch. Lg.; BMA.

Member: NSMP; A. Gld.; Arch. Lg.; NSS; Mun. Art Comm., Balt., Md.; Salon d'Automne, Paris.

Work: portraits, Constitution Hall, Wash., DC; City Hall, Johns Hopkins Hospital & Univ., Union Mem. Hospital, Franklin Square Hospital, Court House, Presbyterian Hospital, Loyola Coll., Md. Nat. Guard Armory, Hannah More Acad., all of Baltimore; St. Johns Coll., Annapolis; Univ. Georgia; St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, Ill.; Georgetown Univ., Wash., DC; mural dec., Maryland War Mem. Bldg., Fidelity-Baltimore Nat. Bank, The Sun Papers Bldg., Ashburton Filtration plant (Lobby), Hotel Emerson, Grand Concourse-Friendship Intl. Airport, Loyola Fed. Savings & Loan Assn., Augusta Bldg. & Loan Assn., Merchants Cl., all Balt., Md.; 2nd Nat. Bank, Towson, Md.; U.S. Naval Acad.; stained glass mem. windows, Ral Parr Mausoleum, Pikesville, Md.; Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Cumberland, Md.; Huguenot Mem. Church, Pelham Manor, N.Y.; Christ Episcopal Church, Balt.; St. Ambrose Catholic Church, Balt.; also churches in Luray, Va.; Frederick, Md.; West River, Md.; Wilson Hotel, New Brunswick, DAR Hall, Wash., DC; Logan Theatre, Phila.; State House, St. Mary's City, Md.

Comments: Position: hd. art dept., Maryland Inst., Baltimore. Alsos appears as McGill Mackall.

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