Robertson K. Mygatt or 'R.K.', (1861–1919) was an American landscape painter and etcher working at the turn of the 20th century. He is often associated with the Tonalist movement which was being experimented with in painting during most of his active years, having emerged as a movement in the 1880s that continued through about 1915. R. K. Mygatt was born in New York City in 1861, where he studied at the Art Students League of New York with noted landscape artist John Henry Twachtman and American impressionist painter William Merritt Chase. He also studied painting in Europe.
For nearly fifty nears after his death, his heirs did not circulate his work at all. It was not until the mid-1960s that many of them became available for sale for the first time after the last of his direct descendants died. As art historians, the gallery world and the public have become more familiar with Robertson Kirtland Mygatt's work, he has grown in popularity.
The Poetic Impulse: Robertson Kirtland Mygatt, an exhibition pamphlet published by the Schwartz Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. [1]
Ask Art, The Artist Bluebook at Askart.com: "Robertson Kirtland Mygatt" [2]
New York Times, Art: "Celebrating a Little-Known Artist", published 6/30/91 [3]
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