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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.
Laura Brown McMillan (1859- ? )
Laura L. Brown was born in Malone, New York on April 23, 1859. She married William McMillan in Indiana in 1882. She studied at John Herron Art Institute, Depauw University, with Edward Sitzman and George Innes Jr. She was a member of the Hoosier Salon and Indiana Art Club. Source: http: / /www.gpamericana.com
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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.
Edgar McKillop, Folk Carver
Edgar McKillop (1879 to 1950) of Balfour, in Western North Carolina, is well known for his folk art carvings of men and animals. His “Hippoceros” is in the collection of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Virginia, and his “Man Holding an Eagle” is in the collection of the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan. Others of his work are in the collection of the Ackland Museum at the [...] Click here to continue reading.
David McGary (born 1958)
David McGary was born in Cody, Wyoming, leaving home at the age of 17 to study anatomy in Italy among craftsman. After returning in 1978, McGary began his career in New Mexico working in various foundries, compiling numerous awards and achievments in the realm of Western sculpture. McGary opened his own studio in 1981. He is well known for some of the largest equestrian bronzes ever produced, and his major [...] 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.
George Herbert McCord
Known for atmospheric marine and landscape paintings in oil, pastel, and watercolor and for black and white drawings, George McCord (1848 to 1909) was born in New York City and remained primarily a resident in Brooklyn although he traveled widely and from 1883 also had a studio in Morristown, New Jersey.
McCord was part of the second generation of Hudson River School painters. He studied at the Hudson River Institute, the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Lawrence McConaha (1894-1962)
Lawrence McConaha was an Indiana artist who traveled to Tahiti to paint in 1933. He was elected to the prestigious Salmagundi Club, a center for fine arts, located in New York.
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