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Mary Witherspoon BIOGRAPHY
1904 Gainesville, Texas - 1999. Known for: Still-life, figure, landscape, miniature.
Born in Gainesville, Texas, Mary Witherspoon became a painter of still life, landscapes, and figures and was especially known for her miniatures in oil and watercolor. She settled in Fort Worth,... Read full biography
Born in Gainesville, Texas, Mary Witherspoon became a painter of still life, landscapes, and figures and was especially known for her miniatures in oil and watercolor. She settled in Fort Worth, Texas but studied and worked in the East. She was a member of the Brooklyn Society of Miniature Painters... Read full biography
Born in Gainesville, Texas, Mary Witherspoon became a painter of still life, landscapes, and figures and was especially known for her miniatures in oil and watercolor. She settled in Fort Worth, Texas but studied and worked in the East. She was a member of the Brooklyn Society of Miniature Painters and exhibited at the Old Lyme, Connecticut and the Pennsylvania Miniature Society. In Old Lyme in 1929, she was a student of Lydia Eastwick Longacare, who had a strong influence on her career. In the... Read full biography
Born in Gainesville, Texas, Mary Witherspoon became a painter of still life, landscapes, and figures and was especially known for her miniatures in oil and watercolor. She settled in Fort Worth, Texas but studied and worked in the East. She was a member of the Brooklyn Society of Miniature Painters and exhibited at the Old Lyme, Connecticut and the Pennsylvania Miniature Society. In Old Lyme in 1929, she was a student of Lydia Eastwick Longacare, who had a strong influence on her career. In the 1930s, she studied with John Sloan at the Art Students League in New York City, and in 1940 she took a job as a draftsman and construction-cost estimator for Swift and Company in Fort Worth. She remained in that employment until 1968, the year she... Read full biography
Born in Gainesville, Texas, Mary Witherspoon became a painter of still life, landscapes, and figures and was especially known for her miniatures in oil and watercolor. She settled in Fort Worth, Texas but studied and worked in the East. She was a member of the Brooklyn Society of Miniature Painters and exhibited at the Old Lyme, Connecticut and the Pennsylvania Miniature Society. In Old Lyme in 1929, she was a student of Lydia Eastwick Longacare, who had a strong influence on her career. In the 1930s, she studied with John Sloan at the Art Students League in New York City, and in 1940 she took a job as a draftsman and construction-cost estimator for Swift and Company in Fort Worth. She remained in that employment until 1968, the year she lost an eye in an automobile accident that also ended her painting career. Source:. John and Deborah Po... Read full biography
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Born in Gainesville, Texas, Mary Witherspoon became a painter of still life, landscapes, and figures and was especially known for her miniatures in oil and watercolor.
She settled in Fort Worth, Texas but studied and worked in the East. She was a member of the Brooklyn Society of Miniature Painters and exhibited at the Old Lyme, Connecticut and the Pennsylvania Miniature Society.
In Old Lyme in 1929, she was a student of Lydia Eastwick Longacare, who had a strong influence on her career. In the 1930s, she studied with John Sloan at the Art Students League in New York City, and in 1940 she took a job as a draftsman and construction-cost estimator for Swift and Company in Fort Worth. She remained in tha...But wait, there's more...
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