Biografie von William Starbuck MACY (1853-1945)

Birth place: New Bedford, MA

Death place: Santa Barbara, CA

Addresses: NYC/New Bedford, MA, 1879-90; Santa Barbara, CA, 1890

Profession: Painter

Studied: NAD with William M. Chase and Frank Duveneck; in Munich with Velton

Exhibited: NAD, 1875-96; Paris Salon, 1878; PAFA Ann., 1879-80, 1888; Boston AC, 1880-96; AIC, 1889-1927; Corcoran Gal. biennial, 1937.

Work: Old Dartmouth Hist. Soc.

Comments: Returned from Europe in the late 1870s and toured the Dakotas, making illustrations for a book by H. Van Dyke. He was first listed in the New Bedford City Directory in 1879. He shared a New York address with artist, William Sartain in the 1880s and moved to California for his health.

Sources: Blasdale, Artists of New Bedford, 126 (w/repro.); Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 369; Falk, Exh. Record Series.