Bidspirit auction | James C. Magee (1846 -

James C. Magee (1846 - 1924) American - James C. Magee (1846 - 1924) Oil on canvas, signed lower right, measures 6.5 x 9.5 and 10.5 x 13.5 inches with frame. Considered a conservative Pennsylvania landscape artist who spent most of his career in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, artist James C, Magee was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1846. After his early schooling in New York and some private training in the fine arts there, Magee entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1896, spending the next six years taking classes beyond his four year degree and studying with a number of significant American artists who both studied and taught there including Thomas Eakins, Cecelia Beaux, Colin Campbell Cooper, Daniel Garber, Thomas Anshutz, and Edward Lamson Henry. Later in New York City, Magee studied with American Impressionist master, William Merritt Chase, and took classes from Ashcan School painter Robert Henri at the Art Students League. Condition: Good Condition