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Emma Mendenhall (1873-1964) Emma Mendenhall was a Cincinnati artist who studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy under Frank Duveneck while the city was a thriving art center. She exhibited in the United States and in Europe, and favored impressionistic landscapes and still-lifes, especially those with flowers. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Mary Blood Mellen (1817-1882) Mary Blood was born in Sterling, Massachusetts, in 1817. Following her marriage to Rev. Charles Mellen in 1840, the couple moved to Gloucester. By the end of that decade, Mellen found herself working alongside famed artist Fitz Hugh Lane, as his student and assistant. In recent years, scholars have discovered that the relationship between Lane and Mellen, which has often been presented as one of master artist and student, was [...] Click here to continue reading. Lewis Henry Meakin (1850-1917) Lewis Henry Meakin (Harry) was born in Newcastle, England in 1850, the son of an English porcelain worker and emigrated to Cinncinnati in 1863 by way of Canada. He was a landscape painter, etcher, and long-time instructor at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Meakin studied extensively in Cincinnati (under Thomas S. Noble), Munich and Paris. He was a founding member of both the Cincinnati Art Club and the Society [...] Click here to continue reading. Riccardo Meacci (Italian, 1856 to 1938) From the home page of the Leicester galleries of London: “Riccardo Meacci was born in Dolciano, a province of Siena, in 1856. He studied at the Instituto di Belle Arti di Siena, where he was trained by Luigi Mussini. He worked in Biringucci until 1881, when he moved to Florence. He was greatly influenced by antiquity and especially the fourteenth century, all his works have religious and allegorical [...] Click here to continue reading. Blanche McVeigh (American, 1895 to 1970) Fort Worth artist Blanche McVeigh is a fabled and mysterious historical figure. Relatively little is known about this accomplished printmaker. She was a co-founder of the Fort Worth School of Fine Arts in 1936 and an artist who had a profound influence on the Fort Worth Circle. Her figure drawing and, especially, printmaking classes were partly responsible for the high quality and rich tradition of the prints produced [...] Click here to continue reading. James Augustus McLean (1904-1989) Born in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the seventh child of a stonecutter, James McLean was raised in North Carolina. Though he began drawing at an early age, he had little opportunity to pursue a career in art, since the subject was not taught in the North Carolina schools at that time, not even in Chapel Hill, where McLean spent his first year of college in 1922. Following [...] Click here to continue reading. Mary Louise McLaughlin (1847-1939) Mary Louise McLaughlin, pioneered the technique of underglaze decoration of ceramics after viewing the Haviland & Co. display of slip painted faience at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. The visit inspired her to discover this technique, known only to Haviland at the time. She acquired the proper coloring agents in September 1877, and in January 1878 fired her first successful piece, becoming the first in the United States to do [...] Click here to continue reading. Ralph J. McDonald (Tennessee, late 20th century) R. J. McDonald is one of our country’s most highly respected wildlife artists. For over twenty-five years his paintings and prints have been enthusiastically collected by knowledgeable art collectors. After graduating from the Harris School of Art, McDonald worked for several years as a successful illustrator and free-lance commercial artist. Later he decided to leave the security of commercial art and become a full time painter of [...] Click here to continue reading. John McCrady (1911-1968) An American regionalist painter, John McCrady was born in Canton, Mississippi. He found the South’s traditions, customs, and landscapes a never-ending source of inspiration. Raised in rural Louisiana and Mississippi, the South permeated his life and art. McCrady articulated his thoughts about his paintings in the following passage: “I see in painting one way of expressing our age, the people and their surroundings, philosophy of life, the emotional reason for [...] Click here to continue reading. Frank C. McCarthy (1924 to 2002) A native of New York City, Frank McCarthy’s fascination with the American West began with an assignment to produce a western image for a book cover. At the time, McCarthy was a successful illustrator whose works had appeared in such leading publications as Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Reader’s Digest, Outdoor Life, and American Magazine. In addition he was frequently asked to provide illustrations for the leading book publishers of [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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