Floyd Gahman


Floyd Gahman was a noted American landscape and building artist who specialized in oil paintings of the New England and mid-Atlantic area. He was born in 1894 in Elida, Ohio, and died in 1979 in New [York City, New York]. In the 1950s, he was head of the Arts Department at the Ogontz Campus of Pennsylvania State University in Abington, PA. He maintained a studio on campus and made woodblock prints of landscapes which he sent to friends and family at Christmas time. faculty member and close acquaintance>. He was named as a National Academician in 1969 and listed in Who's Who in America.
He has one oil on canvas painting in the Smithsonian [American Art Museum]. His painting "The Quarry" is on display in the Earth and Mineral Science Museum at Pennsylvania State University .
His portrait is available for viewing in the Smithsonian American Art Museum website.http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=1715
Category:1894 births
Category:1979 deaths
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Category:American male painters
Category:American landscape painters
Category:People from [Allen County, Ohio]
Category:20th-century American male artists