Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| Grace Emmajean McKinstry was born in Fredonia, NY on Feb. 11, 1857. McKinstry grew up in Faribault, MN.
From the Minneapolis School of Art she studied at the Art Students League in NYC, Art Institute of Chicago, and in Paris at Academies Julian and Colarossi and with Raphael Collin. While maintaining a studio in her home in Faribault, she traveled widely in the U.S.
After 1915 she had studios or visited in the California cities of San Diego, La Jolla, Laguna Beach, Pasadena, and Hollywood. A spinster, she died in Minneapolis, MN on Nov. 26, 1936.
Member: American Artist Professional League; American Federation of Arts; National Arts Club (New York City); SF Women Artists.
Exh: World's Columbian Expo (Chicago), 1893; San Francisco Art Association, 1923; Berkeley League of FA, 1924; Calif. Industries Expo (San Diego), 1926.
Works held in public places: Pomona College (portraits); Cornell Univ.; Capitol (St Paul, MN); Army & Navy Club (Washington, DC).
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Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
American Art Annual 1929; Death Record; Women Artists of the American West; Who's Who in American Art 1936; Minneapolis Tribune, 11-27-1936 (obit). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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Taos Pre 1940
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