Biografie von John MCCRADY (1911-1968)

Birth place: Canton, MS

Addresses: New Orleans, LA

Profession: Painter, illustrator, lithographer, teacher

Studied: Univ. Mississippi; UPenn; New Orleans A. Sch.; ASL, 1933

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1935-49 (4 times); NOAA, 1935 (prize), 1946 (prize); Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1937-41(3 times); NOACC, 1938 (prize)-39 (prize); La. Arts Commission, 1939-40 (prizes); AIC, 1942; SSAL, 1946 (prize); NOMA, 1948 (prize); WMAA. Awards: prizes, Blanche S. Benjamin prize, 1941; Guggenheim fellow, 1939.

Member: SSAL; NOAA; NOACC; New Southern Group.

Work: WPA artist, U.S. Treasury Dept.; Abbott Labs; CAM: High Mus. A.; SFMA; Newark Mus. A.; NOMA; Swope Gal. A.; IBM; mural, USPO, Amory, Miss.; Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Ala.; Rabouin Sch., New Orleans; Delmonico's Restaurant, New Orleans

Comments: Regionalist painter and lithographer. Co-author, Mardi Gras Day. Illus., The Lower Mississippi; also, Time; Life magazines.

Sources: WW59; WW40; Keith Marshall, monograph, New Orleans MA, 1975; Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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