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| Mary Shea Seattle WA I took my first drawing class when I was 16- a life drawing class for high school students at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. (The Art Academy, founded by the Painter Frank Duveneck, is the oldest studio school west of the Alleghenies). I went on to the Academy for my undergraduate studies, majoring in painting and sculpture. After my junior year I applied for and was awarded a scholarship to the Yale Summer School in Norfolk, Connecticut. Mercedes Matter, a colleague of Louis Finkelstein and Andrew Forge, had founded the school as a place where the curriculum was based wholly on working from the figure, eight hours a day. She strongly believed this was an essential foundation for artists, which was being lost as a result of art world and educational fashions. Unlike many figurative schools which are based on "Old Masters" drawing, the studio school acknowledged that we were living in the 20th century, and the teaching was based on a lively, intelligent modernism. While in New york, I studied painting with Mercedes Matter, drawing with Ruth Miller,and sculpture with Peter Agostini. Since moving to Seattle I have continued making and teaching art. My work is in public and private collections across the United States. |
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