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James Gahagan (1927 – July 7, 1999) was an American abstract expressionist Painting and one of the premier American .Gahagan's Obituary retrieved on March 10, 2007 He was an Associate Director of the Hans Hofmann School and created, with Hans Hofmann, two major mosaic in New York City.
Gahagan's work was being exhibited in New York, Provincetown, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Paris. In America specifically it is found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, and the University of California Art Museum in Berkeley. It was also featured in a 1957 travelling exhibition to 64 nations funded by the United Nations, and chosen by Art News for a 1959 Art exhibition of twelve Americans in Spoleto, Italy, at the same time he was awarded a Longview Purchase Grant.
In 1962, Gahagan was one leader of an artists strike which succeeded in gaining zoning for artists' lofts in New York City, such as Westbeth, and co-founding the Artists Tenant Association. Gahagan taught art at a number of university in America from 1965 onwards, including the Pratt Institute, Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts and Goddard College as Chairman of the Art Department.
The James Gahagan School of Fine Arts was opened from 1971–1974 in Woodbury, Vermont, and Gahagan was a guest teacher at Notre Dame University, Indiana, in 1978, Humboldt State University, California, in 1989, and the Vermont Studio Center from 1984 until 1999. He had also become a critic at the International Art Workshop in New Zealand between 1991 and 1992. He died at his home in Woodbury, Vermont.
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