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Painting from Life
Mary Beth McKenzie always works directly from life, and many of her subjects
are friends and family members. She is able to match her impressions with a concern for
the formal aspects of pictorial construction. There is always a subtle mood to her work.
She has said, "When I paint someone, I am less concerned with likeness than with the
character or spirit of that person."
Ms. McKenzie was born in Cleveland. She studied at the Art Students League of
New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Cooper School in Cleveland, and the
National Academy of Design. Her teachers were Robert Philipp, Robert Brackman, Jos
Cintron, Daniel Greene and Burton Silverman. She teaches at both the Art Students
League and the National Academy of Design and was elected to full membership in the Academy in 1994.
Watson-Guptill published her book A Painterly Approach in 1987. Her work was
included in the Metropolitan Museum of Artās exhibition, Looking At You in 2001.
Ms. McKenzie is represented in many public collections, including that of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian
Institute, the Brooklyn Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the National
Museum of Women in the Arts, the Butler Museum of American Art, the Museum of the
City of New York, the National Academy of Design and the New-York Historical
Society. Her paintings are in numerous private collections.
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