Artist Profile

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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.