Mary Beth McKenzie

{"Id":6783,"Name":"Mary Beth McKenzie","Biography":"\u003Cp\u003EMary Beth McKenzie is an American painter of contemporary figures in the realism style. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio and currently resides in New York City where she teaches art at National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer works of art are currently in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Butler Institute of American Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Art Students League of New York, and the National Academy of Design.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2008 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchased two monotypes, \u0022Front Porch Restaurant\u0022 and \u0022Diner (2nd stage)\u0022, as well as a plate for \u0022Front Porch Restaurant\u0022 and \u0022Diner (2nd stage)\u0022. The Metropolitan Museum of Art permanent collection also includes thirteen monotypes from McKenzie\u0027s \u0022Circus\u0022 as well as three oils and three sketch books also by McKenzie.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMcKenzie authored and provided artwork for the book, \u0022A Painterly Approach\u0022, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, October, 1987. She has also contributed articles to several magazines.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMcKenzie was elected to the National Academy in 1994. She has won numerous awards.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe was educated at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, National Academy of Design, and Art Students League of New York, and the Cooper School of Art in Cleveland, and has studied with Robert Brackman, Daniel Greene, and Burton Silverman, among others.\u003C/p\u003E","BiographicalImageUrl":null,"StartYear":1947,"EndYear":null,"Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":false,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":false,"TotalArtworks":1}