Background
Kingman was born in 1909 in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Eugene Kingman
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He studied extensively at the Rhode Island School of Design (with John Frazier, Frederic Sisson and Nancy Jones) during high school, and for a year after high school, Kingman studied at the Fogg Art Museum with Edward Forbes and Paul Sachs. The entirety of his formal higher education was spent at Yale University, where he obtained both a Bachelor and an Master of Fine Arts, and contributed cartoons to campus humor magazine The Yale Record.
Career
Early in his career (he was in his third year at Yale), he was commissioned by Horace M. Albright to paint seven paintings of park scenes at Sequoia, Mountain. Rainier, Grand Teton, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite and Crater Lake. Among other projects, he received Federal Art Project commissions to paint murals in United States Post Offices.
In Hyattsville, Maryland his single mural was untitled, in Kemmerer, Wyoming he painted a 3 panel set with various titles in 1938, and in 1939 in East Providence, Rhode Island he completed an oil on wall 5 panel with various titles.
Kingman taught at Rhode Island School of Design for three years, soon after which he joined the Office of Strategic Services as a cartographer. After World World War II, Kingman became director of the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska.
In addition, he acted as consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, and to the United States. Corps of Engineers for their exhibit of the Missouri River Powerhouse. He died in 1975.
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