James FitzGerald

James Herbert FitzGerald (1910–1973) was an American sculptor from Seattle, Washington. He received a degree in architecture at University of Washington and worked at Spokane Art Center. He has been called "[one] of the Pacific Northwest's preeminent artists of [his] period",

He was born and raised in Seattle, graduating from the University of Washington in 1935. FitzGerald went on to study at Yale University in 1938, where he received a Carnegie Graduate Fellowship, and at the Kansas City Art Institute. He created works for the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP) and the Department of Justice in the 1930s with Boardman Robinson; and worked on other Works Progress Administration art programs in Washington state.

Selected works

Department of Justice murals (with Boardman Robinson) a designated Seattle landmark Waterfront Fountain, Waterfront Park, Seattle Centennial Fountain, Marina Park, Kirkland, Washington Fountain of the Northwest, Intiman Theatre at Seattle Center Tile mosaic, Washington State Library, Washington State Capitol campus, Olympia, Washington Fountain of Freedom ( Scudder Plaza Fountain), Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Rain Forest, as part of the Western Washington University Public Sculpture Collection