Katherine Hood McCormick (1882-1960), was an American painter known for her watercolors and wood block prints. She was an original member of the
Philadelphia Ten
The Philadelphia Ten, also known as The Ten, was a group of American female artists who exhibited together from 1917 to 1945. The group, eventually numbering 30 painters and sculptors, exhibited annually in Philadelphia and later had traveling exh ...
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Biography
McCormick was born in 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Henry McCarter, and Fred Wagner. She continued her training at
Drexel Institute
Drexel University is a private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a financier and philanthropist. Founded as Drexel Institute of Art, S ...
in Philadelphia, and then at the School for Social Research in New York City.
Throughout her career McCormick exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the
National Academy of Design
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fin ...
in New York. In 1917 she participated in the first exhibition of the Philadelphia Ten at the
Art Club of Philadelphia
The Art Club of Philadelphia, often called the Philadelphia Art Club, was a club in Philadelphia, founded on February 7, 1887, to advance the arts.
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McCormick was a member of the Philadelphia Ten, the American Color Print Society, and the
Provincetown Printers
Provincetown Printers was an art colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts during the early 20th-century of artists who created art using woodblock printing techniques. It was the first group of its kind in the United States, developed in an area when ...