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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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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesFirst Light: Local Art and the Fort Worth Public Library, 1901-1961
2001
(Exhibition catalog)Barker, Scott; Kelly Fearing55 pages (color)Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942
2000Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward606 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesDictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945
1999Grauer, Paula and Michael R.240 pages (color)Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages