1887-1952

Born Washington, DC

1909-1912

Paris, member of the “Societe des Artistes Independants”

1915-1916

Instructor in the Fine Arts & Architecture Departments at Columbia University & Teachers’ College, NYC

1918/1919

France/Germany, World War One

1927*-1940

Murals & Interior Design at Ten Chimneys (*Claggett’s involvement in the design & implementation of the Ten Chimneys project apparently reaches back to 1927 (See letter by Alfred Lunt from the Shubert Theatre, Nov.19 [letter page 1] [letter page 2])

1935

“The Taming of the Shrew,” costumes & production. [View More]

1937

Instructor/lecturer in “Color and Design,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, Noted in M/M Art Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 1, Part 1, pp.14-15

Date unknown

Princeton University

Date unknown

Art Students League, New York City

1909-1912

The Julian Academy, Paris; Studied with Richard E. Miller, F. Luis Mora, and Jean-Paul Laurens

1913

“Three Little Spanish Paintings,” Montross Gallery, Spring of 1913, “Mr. Wilson was first Introduced to New York at the Montross Gallery”

1914

“Dutch and Spanish Paintings,” Daniel Gallery, April 19

1917

“Spanish Paintings,” Daniel Gallery, New York City, December 17

1919

“War Paintings,” Knoedler Galleries, New York City [View War Paintings]

1920

“War Paintings,” The Waldorf Show, New York City [View War Paintings]

1920

The Whitney Studio Club

Date unknown (1920’s)

White Hall, opened March 15, via Lucille Douglas article. [View Related Article]

1922

“Song of Solomon,” Chamberlain Dodd Gallery, New York City, January 30 [View Song of Solomon Paintings (under 'Portraits')]

1922

“Song of Solomon,” Arts Club of Chicago, Ill. [View Song of Solomon Paintings (under 'Portraits')]

1922

National Arts Club of New York

1922

Baltimore exhibition of “Song of Solomon”

1922

Milch Gallery

1922

“Spanish Water Colors,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1923

“Spanish Water Colors,” Knoedler Galleries, New York City

1928

“Basque Water Colors,” Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

1932

“Our City,” MacAlister & Alvord Galleries, New York City [View Related Image]

1910

Paris Salon

1913

The Armory Show, New York City, “Moorish Girl,” in oil

1915

Panama-Pacific Exposition, New York, Mural entitled “Clowns,” February

1921

Brooklyn Museum of Art, “Watercolor paintings by American Artists” 18 works shown, 2 purchased by the museum

1922

The National Arts Club, “Basque Fisherman’s Family,” April 16

1924

Brooklyn Museum of Art, “Art treasures & Original Drawings by American Artists”

1948

“Murals, Screens, and Panels Exhibition,” The Manor House, April 7

1920

“War Paintings” : Recommended for Nobel Prize [View Article]

1928

First Prize for “The Perfect Perfume Bottle,” Time Magazine, October 22, Pages 34-36 [View Article]

1922

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Given by Adolph Lewisohn, “A Little Blue Lady Bathing in a Pool,” From “The Song of Solomon.” Town & Country, May 1, Page 42

The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY: Purchased in

The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ: “A Garden from the Song of Solomon”

The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Wash., DC: “War Paintings”

Ten Chimneys Historical Sight, Genesee Depot, WI: Murals & Paintings

"Maria Dolores", 1923, Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Rossin
[View image from The American Hebrew, October 7 1927 ] [View Related Image]

“Gardenia Girl,” (T&C cover, May 1, 1927) Charlotte Pfaffmann [View Related Image]

“The Boxer” (Painted in 1928), Owned by Madonna [View Related Website]

“Basque Baby,” 1928, Mrs. Alfred Rossin

“Corinth,” 1928, Mrs. Alfred Rossin

“Helen of Troy,” 1928, Mrs. Alfred Rossin

“Yvonne George As A Gypsy,” 1928, Mrs. Alfred Rossin

“Portuguese Woman,” 1928, Adolph Lewisohn

“Two Basque Sailors,” 1928, Carl Robertson Dietrich

“Marathon,” 1928, Henry Hadley (Founded Berkshire Musical Theatre)

“A Young Portuguese Woman,” no date, Marie Sterner Galleries

“Rose of Biscay,” Mrs. Edward F. Moon, Eau Claire, WI

“Maine Fisherman,” Rob Pfaffmann, Pittsburgh, PA [View Related Image]

Town & Country Portrait, January 1, 1927, Claggett Wilson Read [View Related Image]

"Callidora", no date, Michael Barton, Tyngsborough, MA [View Related Image]

1922

Town & Country Cover, December 15 [View Image]

1924

Murals for Alfred S. Rossin, Town & Country, October 1, Page 51 [View Related Image]

1925

Designed 17 piece dining suite for Adolph Lewisohn, Wirtzgallery.com

1926

Portrait of Mustapha Kemal Pasha Ataturk, President of Turkey, News Clipping date June 18, 1926. [View Related Information on the Memoirs & Articles page (under 'A President's Portrait']

Murals for Solomon Guggenheim, Town & Country, June 15, Pages 42-43

1927

Town & Country Cover, January 1 [View Image]

Town & Country Cover, May 1 [View Image]

1928

Murals for James Cox Brady, Town & Country, December 1, Pages 18 & 17 [View Page 17] [View Page 18]

Town & Country Cover, February 1 [View Cover]

Town & Country Cover, September 1 [View Cover]

1930

Murals (“Manola” & “Torero”) for Chateau Madrid, Cannes, France, Source unknown [View Manola] [View Torero]

1932

Town & Country Cover, April 15 [View Cover]

1938

Murals for A.O.R. Baldridge, Town & Country, April (no date), Page 83 [View murals]

Murals & Interior Design for Harry Chamberlain, Country Life & The Sportsman, July, Pages 32 & 33

1940

Murals & Interior Design for Ten Chimneys, Vogue Magazine, May 1 [View Related Image] [View More Images of Ten Chimneys]

1946

“Interior Design for the reception hall of the Theatre Guild building in New York City,” The Christian Science Monitor, October 16, Page 8A

Date Unknown

Mural for Tennis Pavilion, Rodney Sharp Estate, Boca Grande, FL : His Art, Murals, No 66 [View Related Images] [View New York Social Diary's review of La Hacienda]              

1915

Mural, “Clowns,” The Panama-Pacific Exposition,” The New York Post, February 10

1920

“War Paintings,” The Spur, February 1, Page 37, by Helen Candee

“War Paintings,” Town & Country, February 1, Page 32, by Augusta Owen Patterson

“War Paintings,” The New York Times, February 8, Notes on Current Art

“War Paintings,” Town & Country, February 20, Page 32, by Augusta Owen Patterson

“War Paintings,” Arts & Decoration, February 20 Page 238, by Helen Churchill Candee

1921

“Historical Pageant, produced under the direction of Claggett Wilson,” Front page of the Lewiston Evening Journal (with photo of Wilson in U.S. Marine uniform), August 20

1922

“Song of Solomon,” The New York Times, January 31

“Song of Solomon,” The New York American, January 31

“Song of Solomon,” Town & Country, March 1, Page 21

“Basque Fisherman’ s Family,” New York Times, April 16

“Song of Solomon,” Town & Country, May 1, Page 42, by Augusta Owen Patterson

1923

“Basque Country,” New York Evening Post, January 27

“Basque Country,” Town & Country, February 15, Pages 36 & 94, by Augusta Owen Patterson

“Basque Country,” Art Gallery & Studio, March, Page 8

1924

“Murals,” Town & Country, October 1, Page 51,

“Murals” for Rossin, The New York Times Magazine, November 16

1926

Portrait of Mustapha Kemal Pasha Ataturk, President of Turkey, News Clipping dated June 18

“Murals” Town & Country, June 15, Pages 42 & 43, by Augusta Owen Patterson

1927

“Murano Glass Creations,” Town & Country, June 1, pages 58 & 59, by Augusta Owen Patterson

“Murano Glass Creations,” & “Frescos,” The American Hebrew, October 7, Pages 750 & 793, Page 751

1928

“Traveling with the Lunts in the Basque Country,” Town & Country, 3/1/28 [View Related Image] [View Related Image]

“The Perfect Perfume Bottle,” Time Magazine, October 22, Pages 34-36

“Murals,” Town & Country, December 1, Pages 18 & 19

1929

"Spanish Port" Town & Country, February 1 [View Related Image]

1930

“Murals,” “Manola & Torero” for Chateau Madrid, Town & County, May 1

“War Paintings Book Review,” The New York Times Book Review, August 3

1932

“Drawings,” Town & Country, April 1 issue

1933

“Claggett Wilson Decorates a Swedish Kitchen (The Hen House) at Ten Chimneys, Vogue Magazine, November 1, 1933

“What Young Apartments Should Wear” by Claggett Wilson, Town & Country, October 1

1937

“Interior Design/Lunt’s New York Apartment,” Town & Country, November [View Related Image] [View Related Image]

1938

“Murals,” Town & Country, April, Page 83

“Murals/Interior Design”, Country Life & The Sportsman Magazine, July, Pages 32 & 33, by Christine Ferry

1940

“Murals/Interior Design at Ten Chimneys,“ Vogue Magazine, May 1

“Lunt’s Painted Piano,” Town & Country, Augusta Owen Patterson, Sept. [View Related Image] [View Related Image]

1942

“Jack Afloat and Susan Ashore,” by Claggett Wilson, Antiques Magazine, July, Pages 22 & 23

1944

“Scrimshaw, the Whalemen‘s Art,” by Claggett Wilson, Antiques Magazine, Page 46, November

1946

“Decorator Counsels Beginners to Use Cut and Paste Method,” by Claggett Wilson for the Christian Science Monitor, October 16, Page 8A

2009

"War Art: Claggett Wilson" by Michael Barton, Stand Too!
[View Complete Article]

1914

Illustrations by Claggett Wilson for “A pageant of the 13th century, for the seven hundredth anniversary of Roger Bacon, given by Columbia University; text by John Erskine.”
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1925

Contributed two (2) miniature paintings to The Stettheimer Dollhouse at the Museum of the City of New York (See book by Shelia W. Clark entitled “The Stettheimer Dollhouse” published by Pomegranate, 2009 [View Images from The Stettheimer Dollhouse]

1928

Published book of “War Paintings”, Published by J.H. Sears, Co., Inc. [View Related Article by Henry McBride] [View Related Article by Alexander Woollcott]

1931

Designed the pool house for the Lunt's at Ten Chimneys. [See Related Image]

1932

“Directed two Symphonic Pageants with the Boston Symphony Orchestra For Mrs. Benjamin Pittman” (Claggett’s letter to Emma Mills)

Lectured (Hellenistic Art) at & became a member of the Copley Society, Boston, MA

1933

Lectured at the Women’s Republican Club (Winter of 1933)

1935

“The Taming of the Shrew,” Production and designed Costumes (Original costumes at the Met. Museum of Art), “Shrew” opened September 30 [See Related Image] [View More Broadway Related Images]

1936

Lectured at Vassar College (see his letter to mother)

1946

Gifted antique gloves imprinted with image of La Fayette to the Costume Institute, Metroploitan Museum of Art, New York City [View Image]

Gifted over time a substantial collection of antique costumes & accessories to the Costume Institute, Metroploitan Museum of Art, New York City

You can search the Met Museum Costume Institute >> Go to http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/the_costume_institute, type 'Claggett Wilson' in the search box, and 24 costume items should appear

1952

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; purchased two (2) antique embroidered pictures from the collection of Claggett Wilson [View Collection Pieces]

Date unknown

Lectured at the Hispanic Museum [See Obituary]