$27,940
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: June 2, 2024 at 2:00 PM ET
Oil on canvas
36 x 32 in. (91.4 x 81.3cm)
The Artist.
The Estate of the Artist.
By descent in the Artist's family.
Private Collection, United Kingdom.
Ainsley Art Gallery, New York, New York, November 1923.
National Academy of Design, New York, New York, March 1924, no. 334.
Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse, New York, 1924.
“One Hundred and Twentieth Annual Exhibition,” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 8-March 29, 1925, no. 273.
“Thirty-Sixth Annual Exhibition,” National Association Women Painters and Sculptors, February 17-March 6, 1927, no. 185 (won ‘Honorable Mention’).
"Paintings by Emma Fordyce MacRae," Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, New York, November 24-December 5, 1936.
“Exhibition of Paintings by Emma Fordyce MacRae,” Corona Mundi International Art Center of Roerich Museum, February 8-March 7, 1930, no. 45.
"Emma Fordyce MacRae, N.A. 1887-1974," Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, March 1-July 20, 2008.
“Scrambled Academy” in Life Magazine, New York, April 10 1924, no. 2162, p. 9 (illustrated).
The present work originally hung in the artist's dining room in her apartment on 12 West 69th Street, New York.
Please note proceeds of the painting's sale will go directly to Alzheimer's Research UK, Britain's leading dementia research charity, and will consequently help research Alzheimer’s disease and other causes of dementia.