American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Papageorge Family Collection

Exhibited

Gallery-on-the-Moors, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1916-1922.
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, August 19 2006-January 31 2007.
"Emma Fordyce MacRae, N.A. 1887-1974," Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, March 1-July 20, 2008.

Literature

Emma Fordyce MacRae, N.A. 1887-1974, an exhibition catalogue, Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, 2008, p. 28, fig. 34 (illustrated).

Note

Although she spent most of her time in New York City, Emma Fordyce MacRae was also an integral part of a circle of wealthy Gloucester residents during the summer months, which included Cecilia Beaux among other artists. The present work is a detailed view of the artist’s garden in her home, Atlantic Highlands, which was located above Stage Fort Park on the western side of Gloucester. Her garden, which her husband Homer Swift would tend to, and from which she plucked fresh flowers that would later serve as subjects of her still life paintings, was also a subject in its own right, as evidenced here.

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