Reddie, MacIvor (1899-1966)
Born Long Beach, California. Died Cohasset, Massachusetts.



Parents: Archibald Ferguson and Eliza (Cattell) Reddie.

1918 WWI Registration. Age 19. Student, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
1920 Census Whitman, Massachusetts. Drawing Teacher, Town school
1926 Boston City directory. Artist (portrait)
1936. Married in Boston, Elizabeth Leaf Magoun. He 37, she 23.
1940 Census Norwell, Massachusetts. He portrait artist, independent.

Obituary
MacIvor Reddie, 67, noted Artist, Educator.

Cohasset - MacIvor Reddie, 67, of 382 South Main St., well-known landscape and portrait painter and educator, died unexpectedly Monday at his home.

Born in long Beach, Calif. And a resident here for many years, Mr. Reddie was a graduate of the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston, and was a consultant in the Cohasset and Whitman public schools.

Moving to New York, he painted murals and portraits, and, after a 10-year interval, returned to New England to Paint, and to Boston to teach at the New England School of Practical Art, later becoming a vice-president and partner there.

Two years ago, the graduating class at Cohasset High School presented the school with an oil painting of the late President John F. Kennedy, done by Mr. Reddie…

Mr. Reddie’s works have been exhibited in museums and are represented in collections throughout the United States and Peru.

He was a member of the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, Guild of Boston Artists, American Watercolo0r Society, New York, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Peabody Museum.

Mr. Reddie leaves a wife, Elizabeth (Magoun); two sons, John of Scituate and David of Cohasset, and a granddaughter.

Services will be Wednesday at 11am in St. Stephens’ Episcopal Church here.

Source:
The Boston Globe (Newspaper) (Boston, Massachusetts) 08 Nov 1966.
Submitted by Edward P. Bentley, Art Researcher and Historian, Greenville, Michigan.