Alan Magee, born in 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania,
attended art school in Philadelphia and, in
1968, began working as an editorial and book illustrator in New York. Among his regular clients were
Time Magazine, The Atlantic, Playboy, New York
Magazine, The New York Times, and Bantam, Ballantine and Simon and Schuster
Books. His illustrations received numerous awards from The Society of
Illustrators, Communication Arts magazine, Playboy: The Annual Editorial Award,
and the Art Directors Clubs of Los Angeles, Chicago And New York. Magee
received a National Book Award in 1982.
Magee has received awards for his painting from the American
Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters and the National Academy of Design. Several television
documentaries have been made about his work including the Maine PBS production,
Alan Magee, Visions of Darkness and Light, and Maine Masters: Alan Magee. Magee
has been interviewed on Radio for Voice of America, Monitor (Christian Science
Monitor) Radio in NY, WHYY in Philadelphia, and
Pacifica Radio in San Francisco.
Forum Gallery has represented Alan Magee since 2001. His work has recently
been included in exhibitions at the American
Academy of Arts & Letters in New York, Elan Fine Arts in Rockland,
ME and New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT.
Magee’s works can be seen in many public collections including The Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco, The Art Institute of
Chicago, Portland Museum of Art and Farnsworth
Art Museum in ME, Arkansas Art
Center, DeCordova
Museum in Lincoln,
MA, Huntington Museum of Art in WV, Newark Art
Museum, and Columbus Museum of Art in OH. His
work is included in the private collections of Mobil Oil, The Atlantic
Richfield Co., Lucasfilm Inc., Cargill Corporation, Continental Grain, the Bank
of Japan, the Union Trust Bank, The Janss Collection, and The collections of
Billy Wilder, Henry Fonda, Chermayeff & Geissmar, Arnold Newman, Johnny
Carson, Mike Nichols and Diane Sawyer, Nicholas Cage, Morley Safer, Burton and
Deedee McMurtry, and the Richard and Jalane Davidson Collection of American
Realist Drawings, among others.