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GERALDINE MCCULLOUGH (1922 - 2008) Rowhouses in the Winter.
Watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper, circa 1945-1950. 514x381 mm; 20 1/4x15 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: private collection.
Born on December 1, 1922, in Kingston, Arkansas, Geraldine McCullough moved to Chicago when she was three years old, where she worked the majority of her life. McCullough attended the Art Institute of Chicago for undergraduate and graduate studies, receiving her BA degree in 1948 and her MA degree in art education in 1955. Originally trained as a painter, McCullough adopted welded sculpture as her preferred medium after her husband Lester McCullough, Sr., a steel worker, introduced her to the technique. Geraldine achieved national and international recognition in the art community with her steel and copper sculpture Phoenix, which received the George D. Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture in 1965. She received numerous accolades and awards for her work including serving as a distinguished guest artist of the Russian government, and exhibited her work at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
