Democrat and Chronicle from Rochester, New York • Page 58

The Dfinotrat and Clironhle Sutuluy Magiizlnr, July 2, 1939 ND PAINTED By Russell Keller LIKE a many-colored daub on an artist's palette, the lit If village of Naples, K. nestles in the center of a legion that has been a jainteis paradise for more than a rent ry. The village, the gentle but towering slopes of the surrounding Bristol Hills, the clear waters ef Canandaigua Lake to the north, all were fixed elements in an artistic wonderland that never palled upon Thomas Kogarty. Because of this, there wen few dry eyes in the congregation when Thomas Kogarty was buried one day in August of last year from St. Januarius Church in the village.

Artists from afar and farmer neighbors came to pay their last respects to the memory of the gentle (yet sometimes fiery) figure who had been picturesque sight for years of cummers as he wandered about Canandaigua Lake's hidden beauty spots, sketch book always in hand, thick mustache, partly hiding a spontaneous mile. Fogarty, a born illustrator and ne of the finest who flourished at the turn of the century, had been stricken ill on a visit to 4 Beloved in Life. Famous In Death, Thomas Fogarty Was a Fine Delineator The American Scene, and A Bristol Hills Enthusiast 5 1 -5 -t few washes of gray and Mack managed to suffuse sotne of the out of door scenes with the flickering sun light of a mild June day or haply suggested the sound of purring brook meandering lazily through the fields. A gentle lyric poetry pervades many of the drawings. As the years went on, a richer content with marked technical development came about.

Search for more and more brevity and lucidity in his statement is everywhere evident. Some of his latter drawings, reinforced with color, must be specially noted. "For many years Kogarty had classes in illustration at the Art -Students' League wher he began his own studies. Tom liked his students and they liked him. The artist's untimely death occurred when he was at the height of his artistic power, lie will be remembered not only for his marked achievement, but for the constantly fine and modest manner of his way.

"Thomas Kogarty was born at 51 Gramercy Park in New York. His father Andrew Kogarty, a civil engineer, was born in Tip-perary. Ireland and enme to the United States in 1868. Ills mother was Margaret Burrett from Boonton, N. J.

"After leaving St. Ixmis College, New York, Kuuarty began earning a living inhe offices of the Kirst National Bank; thence he worked in the publishing house of Scribner. He began his art study in 1894 at the Art Students' League when it was located in 23rd Street. His teachers were Siddons Mowbray, Carol Iteckwith and Kenyon Cox. His clubs were The Players.

The Salmagundi, Dutch Treat and Society of Veterans of the 7th Regiment, NGNY." Today, Thomas Kogarty's wife and his sons, Tom and Alexander, inherit his love for the Hristol Hills. Son Tom follows in his father's footsteps and completed many contracts the se-nior Koparty left behind him. Son Alexander is a successful music composer. So during July the Rochester area will pay homage to the illustrious neighbor who so faithfully depicted the American way of a quarter century ago. His work may help to make older America more vivid in years to come, and the Kogarty name will no doubt aervs mm a guide fee aspiring young artists arriving for excellence in technique and realism in pattern.

a I fie4, f. -t iJ jf' jyjyj'ir 1 'J top of the page, the trial scene Spy; directly above, My Dear artist's ability to convey tragedy it hns experienced In actuality. Michael Angelo and the mystic Rlake called upon to paint God, contrived the same way to embody the unknown power. Koth depicted God as the father, a bearded old man. "All graphic art down to very recent times waa based on imagination-on the telling of a story.

The illustrator naturally follows in this sturdy tradition, conjuring up the types and settings for the graphic terms of his story. "Tom Fogarty belonged to the Rochester and made on one of sketch Fogarty Lake. He gave it ji outstanding band of illustrators which flourished in England and here during the latter years of the last century: Charles Keene, Arthur Rackham, Dulac in England, E. A. Abbey, and C.

D. Gibson over here. These modern masters of pen drawing may safely be said to have inspired Kogarty's work. Always with the addition of his. own view point, he was content like them to add his link in the age old tradition of line drawing.

"The whole of Tom Kogarty's output which has for many years figured In the American Magazine, Saturday Evening I'ost, Itdlea Home Journal, Wmnnns Home Companion, Cosmopolitan, Harper, Century, Good Housekeeping. McCalls, Country Gentleman and many educational -books, among others Children of Dickens, American Literature, published by Charles Scribners Sons, Is concerned mainly with the American scene, the rural countryside with its main streets, farms, country stores, together with the homely drama of the men, women and children of bucolic or American pioneer environment. "These surroundings and characters Fogarty loved and knew, nor ever ceased to observe. He was therefore able to transcribe convincingly their subtle tacit humor, their simple straightforward habits and customs. The accurate details of a farm house, the straggling yokels were at his finger ends.

"But over and above these facts Fogarty often with his pen, ink and white paper of a his ramble along Canandaigua it to Canfield three years ago. Typical Fogarty illustrations, majority of magazine readers, are which will appear in the Rundel Krance. Automat icnlly his footsteps turned to his beloved eum-wier home, The Wigwam, near Woodville at the south end of CannniUicua I-nkp, and there he patard on. The illustrator's mother came to Canandaigua long before any West Lake Road was in existence. In wandering among lake bypaths, she became fond of and purchased the big Victorian-style mansion.

Since then, over half a century, it served a summer Jiorm for the Kogartys. In the summers he spent at the Wigwam, Thomas Kogarty made many Rochester friend. Among them was Mrs. KmncUi K. Oun-ntngham.

of 8ut Ooodmjth street, who will recalls how the Mindly artist could bristle when the subject of modern art arose "the bolhevUm of cnodern art" he used to label It. Another warn Hubert Canfield, to whom Kogarty made a gift of a sketch which is reproduced on this page. llrrnuw of Kogarty's affection for the Itrintol count rysitle, Kurt-lel Art Clallcry of the Rochester Public Library arranged for a month-long memorial exhibit of Kogarty's works during July. The exhibition consists of more than J0 pen drawings and water-olor paintings once used as illustrations that were exhibited re-ently at the Kleeman Galleries in New Tork City. During the course of arranging for the Rochester exhibit, Ralph H.

Jjrry Scaled an unusually familiar to the the two above Gallery exhibit in July: At the is entitled The Child shows the comprehensive and concise ac- count of Fogarty and his work. Written by Albert Sterner of New York, and once used in a catalogue, it is a follows: "Thomas Kogarty was a born illustrator. Throughout the whol of Ms work there persists that most Wnportant factor in all art, imagination. "I define 'imagination' as the power of the mind to call up images, the only rational, meaning of the word; for the mind of man can conceive only that which 'f Owned Vy Hubert Canfield never before published is this.