Marie R MacPherson (Ohio 1877-1964) Apple Blossom Time Singed Silkscreen Print

Description: Marie R MacPherson (Cincinnati, Ohio 1877-1964) Apple Blossom Time, 1950sSilkscreenSigned lower right (partially weak) and titled "Apple Blossom Time" Image: 10 3/4 by 14 inchesPage: 12 1/2 by 18 inches From AskArt: Maria Mary Rauchfuss was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 19, 1877. (frequently listed as 1879) Rauchfuss studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati with Henry Sharp and Frank Duveneck. She was a member of the Society of Western Artists, exhibiting her work in the society’s Second and Third Annual Exhibitions, 1897-1899. Marie Rauchfuss was a well-documented Art Pottery decorator. She worked for Weller Pottery and Rookwood Pottery in the 1890s-1903. At Weller Pottery, Rauchfuss decorated Louwelsa and Aurelian ware. At Rookwood Pottery, Rauchfuss was known for her portraits of Native Americans and floral designs. In 1903, Rauchfuss moved to Louisville, Kentucky and set up a studio in the Norton Building where she exhibited her paintings and taught art classes. In 1904, her painting, entitled “The Kentucky Girl” (a portrait of her sister), was selected to be exhibited in the Kentucky Pavilion at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. In 1905, Rauchfuss married James F. MacPherson (1861-1941). MacPherson continued her career under the name: Marie R. MacPherson. The MacPhersons lived in Jellico, Tennessee in 1910s and later returned to Cincinnati. MacPherson was an active member of the Woman’s Art Club of Cincinnati and continued to exhibit her work. MacPherson is listed as an animal and sporting artist. She was also a successful dog breeder and trainer of Pointers and Setters in field trials. Her paintings from this time depict dogs working in the field. In 1941, MacPherson’s husband passed away. Sometime in the 1940s, MacPherson moved to New York City. She joined the National Serigraph Society. MacPherson made a series of silkscreens and serigraphs. Her serigraphs were exhibited nationally through the society’s traveling exhibition program. She was also a member of the Progressive Citizens of America. In 1951, MacPherson married Francis “Frank” Joseph Seroni (1898-1963), and was known as, Marie R. Seroni. She died June 10/11, 1964 in New York and was buried with the Rauchfuss family in the Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Partial List of Exhibitions: Name: Marie Rauchfuss Second Annual Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 17-November 8, 1897. [#93 “Little Puritan” pastel; #94 “Duck Creek Road Dairy” watercolor] Third Annual Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 24, 1898-January 15, 1899. [#110 “Bacchante” pastel] Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1897. [“The Old Kitchen”] Fine Art Pottery Exhibition, 230 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1898. [Commemorative Vase] Studio Opening, Norton Building, Louisville, Kentucky, February 7, 1903. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Kentucky Pavilion, May 1904. [“The Kentucky Girl”} Portraits and Landscapes by Miss Marie Rauchfuss, Lindsey’s Art Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, March 26-April 1, 1905. Name: Marie R. MacPherson Southern Electrical and Industrial Exposition, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1909. [“A Boy with a Rabbit” and “Mother and Child”] Thirty-First Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, November 7, 1918-January 1, 1919. [#134, “Mabel”] Annual Exhibition of American Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 1923. [#149: “The Blood Satyr” mural and #150 “Enchantment” mural] Cincinnati Art Museum Annual Exhibition, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 1924. Annual Exhibition of the Woman’s Art Club, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 9-23, 1929. Exhibition, Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, January 1931. Cincinnati Art Club Exhibition, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 8-23, 1929. Cincinnati Museum Association Exhibition, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2, 1938. Flower Festival, Cincinnati’s Art Women’s Club, Cincinnati, Ohio, Mary 15, 1938. Argenti Gallery, New York, New York, November 1941. National Serigraph Society, New York, New York, Traveling Exhibitions, 1940s-1950s. Partial List of Collections: Cincinnati Art Museum; National Gallery of Art; Georgetown University; Northwestern University Partial List of References: Ancestry.com: Social Security Death Index; US Census records; City Directories; family trees. Newspaper.com: Louisville, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio papers, 1877-1964. Lindley, Harlow, Ohio in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1938, Columbus: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1941, Chapter XII, The Arts, p. 317. Marie Rauchfuss MacPherson. Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women artists, An International Dictionary of Artists Born before 1990; Boston, G. K. Hall, 1985. Falk, Peter Hastings, Who Was Who in American Art, 400 Years of Artists in America, Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999, p. 2709. Jacobsen, Anita, Jacobsen’s Biographical Index of American Artists, Carrolton, Texas: A. J. Publications, 2002.

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