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FitzGerald began his career as a painter, first studying with the great Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and then working on WPA-funded murals throughout the U.S, including in New York, where he lived briefly with Jackson Pollock. After studying at Yale’s School of Architecture, FitzGerald returned west, where he began making monumental sculpture. There are five public fountains designed by FitzGerald in Seattle, including one for the IBM building designed by Minoru Yamasaki, the architect of the Woodrow Wilson School.