Background
Mays, Paul Kirtland was born on October 4, 1887 in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Dallas and Lucy Hall (Kirtland) Mays.
Mays, Paul Kirtland was born on October 4, 1887 in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Dallas and Lucy Hall (Kirtland) Mays.
Student Art Students League, 1907-1910, Hawthorne School of Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1911, Newlyn School of Painting, London and Colarossi Academy, Paris, 1923-1924.
Kirtland; married second, Margaret Pendleton Cooper, 1926. 1 son, Jared Potter Kirtland. Represented by painting “Monterey,” Cleveland Women's Club.
“Jungle,” The White House (Washington, District of Columbia).
“Taos,” University of Pennsylvania. “Harvest,” Oberlin College.
Murals, “Indian Legends,” Gallery of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia). Murals United States Physician organization, Norristown, Pennsylvania, mural Bryn Athyn Academy, 1951.
Paintings exhibited at Corcoran Gallery, Washington, Whitney Museum, New York City.
Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia. Stendahl’s, Los Los Angeles Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1946. Evanston, Illinois, 1948.
Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1951, Artists Guild of America (Carmel Art Gallery), 1952.
Exhibitions Pittsburgh and Carmel, California, 1953.
Member Artists Equity, Carmel Art Association, National Society Mural Painters, International Institute Arts and Letters.
Married Eleanor Moore, 1916. Married second, Margaret Pendleton Cooper, 1926.