Margit Varga | |
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Born | Margaret Varga
[1] May 5, 1908 [1] New York City, New York, U.S.
[1] |
Died | April 8, 2005 | (aged 96)
Education |
National Academy of Design, Art Students League of New York |
Occupation(s) | Artist, gallerist, art editor, art director, journalist |
Spouse | Laszlo Kormendi |
Margit Varga (1908–2005) was an American artist, gallerist, journalist, art director, and art editor. [2] [3] Her artwork has been described as " magical realism" and her work was known in the New York City-area and in Europe. [4] Varga owned a Midtown art gallery for emerging artists in the 1930s. She was an art authority and served as a judge for art exhibitions in the 1930s and 1940s. [5] For 40 years Varga worked for Time magazine.
Margit Varga was born on May 5, 1908, in the Upper East Side in New York City, to parents from Hungary. [6] [7] [1] She studied art at the National Academy of Design; and at the Art Students League of New York, under Boardman Johnson and Robert Laurent. [6] [7]
She owned the Painters' and Sculptors' Gallery at 22 East 11th Street in Midtown in 1932. [6] [8] [9] The gallery showed emerging artists for the next 3 years. [7] [9] Varga worked for 40 years as an art editor and art director of Time magazine, starting in 1936. [10] [4]
Varga died on April 8, 2005, in Naples, Florida. [4] Her artwork can be found in museum collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [4] Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, [11] the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [12] and Gilcrease Museum. [13]