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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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Keywords (31)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Miniature Art
- •Miniature, Small Scale Painting
Art Media
Art Style
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Old Lyme, Connecticut
- •Texas Before 1940
Art Association
- •American Society of Miniature Painters
- •Brooklyn Society of Artists
- •Society of Miniature Painters
Art Teacher
- •John Sloan
- •Robert Henri
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Commercial Art and Design
- •Figure Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Annual Texas Artists Exhibition
- •Texas Centennial Exposition
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Brooklyn Society of Artists-
- •Fort Worth Art Association