About Paul L. Gill
Lived 1894 – 1938 (aged 43–44). Paul L. Gill was an American painter.
Paul Ludwig Gill (1894 - 1938) was an American watercolor painter and teacher. His work includes a government funded mural in Cairo, Georgia. Shortly after the commission he died at age 44. The Brooklyn Museum of Art held a memorial exhibition of his work along with that of George Pearse Ennis who died in 1936.
Gill died of a heart attack in Harvey Cedars, New Jersey, where he and his wife, portraitist Sue May Gill, owned a cottage that was their longtime summer home. He grew up in Auburn, New York and graduated from Syracuse University. He also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he won two Cresson scholarships for European study and travel.
Two of his paintings are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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American painter (1894–1938)
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Paul L. Gill was a painter.
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