Emma Fordyce MacRae

Emma Fordyce MacRae (April 27, 1887, Vienna – August 6, 1974) was an American representational painter. She was a member of the Philadelphia Ten, a group of women artists who worked and exhibited together.[1] Her work — including still lifes and paintings of women — shows the influence of Asian flower paintings and of Seurat.

Emma Fordyce MacRae
BornApril 27, 1887
Vienna
DiedAugust 6, 1974 (aged 86)
NationalityAmerican
Education
Known forstill lifes, paintings of women
Notable work
  • Green Jade (1928)
  • A Persian Girl (1937)
MovementPhiladelphia Ten

Biography

MacRae grew up in New York City, where she attended Miss Chapin's School and the Brearley School.[2] She enrolled at the Art Students League in 1911, studying first with Frank DuMond and Kenneth Hayes Miller, and beginning in 1915, with Luis Mora, Ernest Blumenschein, and John French Sloan. She also attended one of Robert Reid's summer courses.

MacRae's painting, "Green Jade," was shown at the Anderson Galleries in 1928, at an exhibit of artist members of the American Woman's Association.[3] Many exhibitions and gallery showings followed. In 1937, MacRae's painting "A Persian Girl," was listed as deserving of special mention by The New York Times critic Edward Alden Jewell.[4] In the 1940s, MacRae was chairman of the awards jury of the National Association of Women Artists.[5]

Galleries rediscovered MacRae's art in the 1980s; the Richard York Gallery in New York exhibited thirty of her paintings in December 1983.[6] In 1987, her painting of a Venetian cafe was part of "American Women Artists, 1830-1930," an exhibition displayed at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. and in four other museums.[7]

MacRae had studios in New York City and in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Where MacRae painted her New England landscapes form the Cape Ann Landscapes Tour.[8]

Recent exhibitions of MacRae's work have been held at Cape Ann Museum and Greenwich, Connecticut.[9][10]

Collections and museums

References
  1. "The Philadelphia Ten," Westmoreland Museum of American Art.
  2. Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 9781135638825. Retrieved 13 January 2017 – via Google Books.
  3. "Woman Artists Exhibit," New York Times, April 10, 1928.
  4. "Academy of Design Opens 112th Show," New York Times, March 13, 1937.
  5. Edward Alden Jewell, "Sculpture Prize to Miss Lathrop," New York Times, April 6, 1943.
  6. "Art", New York Times, December 4, 1983.
  7. Eleanor Tufts, American Women Artists, 1830-1930 Washington, D.C. : International Exhibitions Foundation for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1987; Google books.
  8. "Cape Ann Landscapes Tour". Emma Fordyce MacRae.
  9. A.J., Kissel (2008). "Emma Fordyce MacRae, N.A." (PDF). Cape Ann Museum. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  10. A.J., Kissel (2011). "Emma Fordyce MacRae". Morgan Manhattan. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011.
  11. Emma Fordyce MacRae, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 2013-06-19.

External resources

Review.

  • American Art Review Volume 20 Number 2 March–April 2008 Article: Paintings of Emma Fordyce MacRae, N.A (1887–1974) by Karen E. Quinn.
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