Emma Fordyce MacRae (1887-1974)
Emma Fordyce MacRae (1887-1974)
MacRae studied in New York at the Art Students League under Frank Vincent DuMond, F. Luis Mora, E. F. Blumenschein, and John Sloan, at the New York School of Art under Kenneth Hayes Miller, and at the Art Students League Summer School at Woodstock under Robert Reid.
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Memberships were held in New York at the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the American Women’s Association, the Allied Artists of America, the Cosmopolitan Club, the National Association of Mural Painters, the Pen and Brush Club and the National academy of Design; also at the Boston Arts Club, the North Shore Arts Association, the Gloucester Society of Artists and the Philadelphia Art Alliance.
Exhibitions were held in New York at the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Academy of Design, the MacDowell Club, the Corona Mundi International Art Center of Roerich Museum, the Ainslie Galleries, the Dudensing Galleries, the Grand Central Art Galleries, the Audubon House, the National Art Club, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the American
Women’s Association, the National Society of Mural Painters, the Architectural League of New York, the Pen and Brush Club, the New York Society of Painters, the Cosmopolitan Art Association, the Allied Artists of America, and the Knickerbocker Club; in Boston at the Grace Horne Gallery, Doll and Richards, and the Boston Arts Club; in Manchester, New Hampshire, at the Currier Gallery of Art; in Gloucester, Massachusetts, at the North Shore Arts Association; in Rockport, Massachusetts, at the Thieme Gallery; in Cleveland, Ohio, at the O’Brien Gallery; in Rhode Island at the Newport Art Association; in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum and the Woodmere Art Gallery; in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the Carnegie Art Institute; in Syracuse, New York, at the Syracuse Museum; in New Jersey at the Montclair Art Museum; and in Southampton, New York, at the Parrish Art Museum.
One artist shows were held in New York at the Corona Mundi International Art Center of Roerich Museum, 1930, the Ainslie Galleries, the Grand Central Art Galleries, 1936, the Cosmopolitan Art Association, 1937, and the MacDowell Club, 1941; in Boston at the Doll & Richards Gallery, 1935, and the Boston Art Club, 1937; and in Manchester, New Hampshire, at the Currier Gallery of Art.
Awards were received by the National Academy of Design; the Pen and Brush Club, 1946, 1950 and 1953; the National Association of Women Artists, 1941, 1945; the Allied Artists of America, 1942; the National Art Club, 1930; the Grand Central Art Galleries; and the American Women’s Association.
References: See Who Was Who In American Art (1999). Dicitonaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs (1976), Women Artists in America (1980), Directory of American Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers (1926) The American Federation of Arts, American Art Annual (1930), Index of Artists (1948), The Philadelphia Ten: A Women’s Artist Group (1998)