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JOHN MCCRADY (1911-1968)
Steamboat Round the Bend. Lithograph. 247x376 mm; 9 3/4x14 3/4 inches, full margins. Edition of 250. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. 1946.
A very good impression.
McCrady, born in Canton, Mississippi attended the University of Mississippi and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After receiving a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York, he established the John McCrady Art School in New Orleans in 1942.
McCrady was employed as a muralist for the Federal Art Project. He created a mural for the Armory, Mississippi post office entitled Armory in 1889. He also received commissions Works Progress Administration to design and illustrate posters.
