Lot 943
John McCrady (American/Mississippi, 1911-1968), "Portrait of Catherine Eskridge Eatman (1913-1984)", oil on canvas, signed and dated "1932" lower right, inscribed "Eatman" on stretcher bar en verso, 35 1/8 in. x 24 1/8 in., unframed. Provenance: Descended in the family of the sitter. Note: Catherine Eskridge Eatman became acquainted with John McCrady after his family moved to Oxford, Mississippi, in 1928; together they attended art classes held by a local teacher. McCrady painted Eatman's portrait in 1932, the year he left the University of Mississippi to move to New Orleans where he enrolled in the New Orleans Art School. This early McCrady reveals elements of what would become his signature style Catherine Eatman attended John McCrady's art school in New Orleans while her husband was fighting in WW II, and maintained a life-long friendship with McCrady and his wife. From 1965 to 1974, Eatman was the Director of the Mary Buie Museum in Oxford, which later became part of the University Museum in 1976 In 1966, during her tenure, the museum held an exhibition of McCrady's late work.
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