The Washington Post, March 4th, 1996
Two months ago, Virgil McMahan succumbed to the cancer that had been diagnosed four years earlier. He held on long enough to see his life's work printed and bound and delivered to his home in Northwest Washington. In mid-December McMahan grasped one of the 1,000 copies he'd had printed of his book, "The Artists of Washington, D.C., 1796-1996: A Directory of Painters, Sculptors and Engravers Born Before 1900." Three weeks later, on Jan. 4, he died at the age of 60. For 35 years McMahan labored over this astonishing piece of scholarship chronicling Washington's artists, and after his illness was...
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