JOSEPH MCGURL IS ONE OF AMERICA’S most prominent contemporary landscape painters. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and studied in London and Florence. He has had retrospective shows at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, The Cahoon Museum of American Art, and the Saint Botolph Club of Boston. The Arnot Art Museum’s Representing Representation exhibitions included his work as an example of contemporary landscape painting.
Notable Awards and Achievements
In 2024 he was selected as the featured artist for the Coors Western Art Show in Denver. He is in the collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art, The National Western Stock Show Permanent Collection, The Cape Cod Museum of Art, The Cahoon Museum of American Art, The Mellon Collection, The Art Renewal Center, the Tweed Museum of Art, the Forbes Collection, and the Westmoreland Museum of Art. He has been designated a Living Master by the Art Renewal Center, elected to the Guild of Boston Artists, was a Copley Master with the Copley Society of Boston, was a fellow with the American Society of Marine Artists and is a signature member of the Plein Air Painters of America.
Among his many awards are the Guild of Boston Artists Gold Medallion; the Art Renewal Center’s International Salon two First Place in Landscape awards, Plein Air Magazine award, American Fine Art Magazine Award of Excellence, Rehs Award, Best Marine Painting, and a Purchase Award; Best of Show and Patron’s Choice at the Laguna Plein Air Painting Invitational; Three Patron’s Choice Awards and the Western Art Collector Magazine Award at the Coors Western Art shows; Best Group of Paintings at the Salmagundi Club American Masters Show; the Boldbrush Award, and the Copley Society’s the John Singleton Copley Award given for Artistic Achievement.
Gallery Representation
Cavalier Ebanks Galleries, New York, New York
Collins Galleries, Massachusetts
Palm Avenue Fine Art, Florida
Principle Gallery, Alexandria, Virgina