Emma Fordyce MacRae

The theme of women in interiors has a long history and in the twentieth century was mostly associated with academic painters, especially the artists of the Boston School.

Emma Fordyce MacRae's friend Ivan Olinsky also treated this subject, but also with a more traditional approach. MacRae's paintings differ, however, in their style from either his work or those artists of the Boston School in that hers "suggest a simplification of form not unlike that practiced by many a modern sculptor." This treatment is seen, for example, in the planes of the face and neck of the sitter in this painting of Olinsky's daughter.

Exhibited :
1936 - Allied Artists of America
1936 - North Shore Arts Association
1936 - Grand Central Art Galleries
1937 - Boston Art Club
1937 - Corcoran Bi Annual
1938 - National Association of Women Painters & Sculptors
1938 - New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
1938 - MacDowell Club
1939 - Philadelphia Academy rejected
1939 - Grand Central Art Galleries
.... - Rotary Museums
2008 - Cape Ann Museum

Italian Girl
Oil Painting
Size : 36 x 32 inches
Figurative composition
Emma Fordyce MacRae 1887 - 1974