| Herman Maril | ||
| Birth Date: 1908 |
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| Death Date: 1986 Artist Gallery |
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| Herman Maril was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1908. He studied at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and later at the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts. He supported himself during this time by creating signs and show cards for area department stores.
Olin Dows in the “American Magazine of Art” wrote in July of 1935: “He (Maril) sees the life around him with a painter’s eye…It is expressed through an underlying geometric skeleton, integrity of structure that I find very sympathetic. His observation is acute, but his statement is reduced to the bare necessities of expression…He frequently clothes these simplified conceptions with subtle color and tone, a variety of handing, a poetry and mood that intensifies one’s pleasure and delight in the structure”.
An American Regionalist painter and long-time teacher at the University of Maryland, he did paintings that emphasize clarity, simplicity and are created with broad, flat, color masses in a style related to Cubism. |
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