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M. Evelyn McCormick
Mary Evelyn McCormick (December 2, 1862 – May 6, 1948) was an American Impressionism, American Impressionist who lived and worked around San Francisco and Monterey, California at the turn of the 20th century. Early life and training Mary Evelyn (Eve) McCormick was born on December 2, 1862, to Irish immigrants in Placerville, California, Placerville, El Dorado County, California. An online facsimile of the entire text of Vol. 1 is posted on the Traditional Fine Arts Organization website (). By 1867 the family had moved to San Francisco, where her father’s occupation was listed as “barkeeper” or “liquor dealer.” After completing grammar school she trained in the early 1880s at the Irving Institute, a private academy for college-bound girls, where she received her first professional lessons in art. While a student at the Institute, she exhibited her painted porcelain at the California State Fair (1881) and at the San Francisco Mechanics' Institute Fair (1882). She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
