Artist Profile

Henry Bainbridge McCarter

• Lived:
• 1886-1942
• Worked:
• Pennsylvania
• Style:
• Illustrator, Landscape, Genre painting, Educator

• Education : Studied with P de Chavannes, Bonnat, A. Harrison, T. Lautrec, M. Roll, M. Rixens in Paris; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Eakins.

  Exhibits : Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo 1901 (medal); St. Louis Expo 1904 (medal); Philadelpha Water Color Club 1906 (prize); Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco 1915 (2 gold medals); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1930 (prize), 1939 (medal); Philadelphia Art Club 1935 (gold),
  1936 (gold).

  Holdings : Pennsylvania Museum of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

  Illustrator : R.W. Gilder's poems for Scribner's, Century, Harper's, Collier's.

  Position : Teacher at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

  information from a tear sheet of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and notes by the Butler Institute curator, Clyde Singer.