Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South
2015Pollack, Deborah C.
400 pages (color)
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1911 Canton, Mississippi - 1968 Oxford, Mississippi. Known for: Modernist figure, genre, religious and portrait painting.
Born in Canton, Mississippi, John McCrady had a deep exposure to southern culture during his childhood in Oxford, Mississippi. His father was an Episcopalian minister who also taught philosophy at... Read full biography
Born in Canton, Mississippi, John McCrady had a deep exposure to southern culture during his childhood in Oxford, Mississippi. His father was an Episcopalian minister who also taught philosophy at the University of Mississippi. In the mid 1940s, he worked on a series of paintings of nostalgic... Read full biography
Born in Canton, Mississippi, John McCrady had a deep exposure to southern culture during his childhood in Oxford, Mississippi. His father was an Episcopalian minister who also taught philosophy at the University of Mississippi. In the mid 1940s, he worked on a series of paintings of nostalgic scenes of the Deep South including images of steamboats, plantation, and cotton fields. These works, very popular with the public, were exhibited at the Associated American Artists Gallery in New York... Read full biography
Born in Canton, Mississippi, John McCrady had a deep exposure to southern culture during his childhood in Oxford, Mississippi. His father was an Episcopalian minister who also taught philosophy at the University of Mississippi. In the mid 1940s, he worked on a series of paintings of nostalgic scenes of the Deep South including images of steamboats, plantation, and cotton fields. These works, very popular with the public, were exhibited at the Associated American Artists Gallery in New York City. He also did Art Deco oil paintings such as Mother Earth and satirical paintings including Mr. Gulliver of La-fay-ette County, which expressed his feelings that artists interested in depicting realism were considered passe in a time when Abstract... Read full biography
Born in Canton, Mississippi, John McCrady had a deep exposure to southern culture during his childhood in Oxford, Mississippi. His father was an Episcopalian minister who also taught philosophy at the University of Mississippi. In the mid 1940s, he worked on a series of paintings of nostalgic scenes of the Deep South including images of steamboats, plantation, and cotton fields. These works, very popular with the public, were exhibited at the Associated American Artists Gallery in New York City. He also did Art Deco oil paintings such as Mother Earth and satirical paintings including Mr. Gulliver of La-fay-ette County, which expressed his feelings that artists interested in depicting realism were considered passe in a time when Abstract Expressionism was center stage. From the mid 1950s onward, he seemed to lose interest in paint... Read full biography
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesTales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums
2004Eldredge and Eiland0 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesArt in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996Delehanty, Randolph292 pages (color)Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
1995Severens, Martha R289 pages (color)A Southern Collection
1992Pennington, Estill Curtis246 pages (color)Downriver Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting 1800-1950
1991Pennington, Estill Curtis208 pages (color)The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)1,117 pagesDepression Post Office Murals and Southern Culture/A Gentle Reconstruction
1989Beckham, Sue Bidwell338 pagesAnnual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)538 pagesArt and Popular Religion in Evangelical America, 1915-1940
1989Gambone, Robert L286 pages (color)Look Away: Reality and Sentiment in Southern Art
1989Pennington, Estill Curtis200 pages (color)San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985DuPont, Diana, K Holland402 pages (color)Painting in the South: 1564-1980
1983
(Exhibition catalog)Virginia Museum, Richmond362 pages (color)American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981Newark Museum431 pages (color)The Neglected Generation of American Realist Painters, 1930-48 Wichita Art Museum Exhibition, May 3-June 14, 1981
1981
(Exhibition catalog)Wooden, Howard E. (Text)64 pages (color)Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst544 pages (color)The Regionalists
1976Heller, Nancy/Julia Williams190 pages (color)The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of Collections
1975Buckley, Charles E377 pages (color)John McCrady 1911-1968
1975
(Exhibition catalog)Marshall, Keith127 pages (color)Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries
1975Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman246 pagesThe Thirties Decade American Artists and Their European Contemporaries
1971
(Exhibition catalog)Porter, Allen/Wm McGonagle80 pagesAmerican Prize Prints of the 20th Century
1949Reese, Albert257 pagesThrough the American Landscape
1941Klitgaard, Kaj323 pages (color)Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists
1940Hall, W. S.150 pages (color)Modern American Painting
1939Boswell, Peyton Jr207 pages (color)Modern Art in America
1939Cheney, Martha Candler190 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages