Marie R. MacPherson (Marie Rauchfuss)

Spring Fantasy

Marie MacPherson's original silkscreen, "Spring Fantasy" is printed upon hand-made, laid paper bearing both the 'Ingres' and 'Carlson & Montgolfier' watermarks and with full, deckled margins as printed in an edition of fifty impressions in 1949. It is pencil signed, titled and numbered, by the artist along the lower margin and signed within the silkscreen to the lower right. "Spring Fantasy" belongs to the earliest years of the art of silkscreening. It is a fine, original example of the art created by the American artist, Marie MacPherson.

Original Color Silkscreen by the American artist, Marie R. MacPherson 'Marie Rauchfuss MacPherson'.

Spring Fantasy

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Title:	Spring Fantasy
Artist:	Marie R. MacPherson 'Marie Rauchfuss' (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1879 – New York City, 1964)
Date:	1949
Medium:	Original Color Silkscreen
Edition:	Limited edition of fifty impressions, numbered 32/50.
Note:	Marie R. MacPherson 'Marie Rauchfuss MacPherson': An American Artist, Marie R. MacPherson (nee Marie Rauchfuss) was a highly skilled painter, printmaker and art pottery designer born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati with Henry Sharp and Frank Duveneck and at the Art Institute of Chicago. Mary Rauchfuss MacPherson was a member of the Columbus Art League, President of the Cincinnati Woman’s Art Club, and a member of the Society of Western Artists where she exhibited her art at the society’s second and third annual exhibitions in 1897, 1898 and 1899. After the death of her husband (James MacPherson) in 1941, she moved to New York to pursue her artistic career and later became a member of the National Serigraph Society, originally known as the ‘Silk Screen Group’ which was a ‘non-profit artists’ organization chartered by the Board of Regents of the State of New York as an educational corporation founded in 1940 by WPA (Federal Art Project) artists. In April/May of 1951, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts held an exhibition of serigraphs created by National Serigraph Society artists which included an original serigraph by Marie MacPherson entitled Homeward Bound.
	As a serigraph (silkscreen) artist, Marie R. MacPherson is known for her landscapes, still life art and genre but she was also a talented lithographic artist and painter. During the early 1940’s she produced several color silkscreens in signed editions of fifty impressions. These range from views of New York harbor and elsewhere to pure fantasy scenes, such as this large and beautiful example. Marie MacPherson also created striking pottery designs while employed at the Weller Pottery and Rookwood Pottery. Today examples of her original silkscreen and serigraphic art are housed in the permanent collections of Georgetown University and Northwestern University, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Society of Artists, the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art which includes another impression of this original Marie MacPherson silkscreen in their collection and many other important private and public institutions.
	Of much interest is the fact that these MacPherson silkscreens can be classified as ‘incunabula’ of the art medium. Guy Maccoy was perhaps the first to adopt screen-printing as a fine art. His first one man show of silkscreens took place in New York in 1938. By 1940 such artists as Elizabeth Olds, Harry Gottlieb, Ruth Chaney, Hyman Warsager, Leonard Pytlak and Edward Landon had begun to explore the artistic possibilities of this new medium. During this year, as well the Silk Screen Group (later renamed, National Serigraph Society) was formed. Spring Fantasy thus belongs to the earliest years of the art of silk-screening. Of even greater significance is that such a large and accomplished full colour printing could emerge during the first, experimental steps of the artform.
Size:	18 3/4 X 28 1/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	UnMatted
Buy Now	Price: $650.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon hand-made, laid paper bearing both the 'Ingres' and 'Carlson & Montgolfier' watermarks and with full, deckled margins as printed in 1949. Pencil signed, titled and numbered, '32/50' by the artist along the lower margin and signed within the silkscreen to the lower right. A brilliantly printed, full color impression without a trace of fading and in excellent condition throughout. Spring Fantasy represents a remarkable, original example of the talents of Marie MacPherson and of early silkscreen art.
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