James FitzGerald

James FitzGerald studied art at many institutions in the United States, including the University of Washington, the Kansas City Art Institute, and briefly with Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975) at the Art Center School in Los Angeles. In the 1940s he traveled to Mexico to study mural painting under José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949).

FitzGerald taught at his alma maters in Kansas and Washington state and served as director of the Spokane Art Center under the WPA Federal Art Project in 1941. During this period he also created work for WPA art projects in Colorado, Washington, and California. He exhibited extensively across the United States, including group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo and solo exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and San Francisco Art Museum.