John Mclnnis LLC – Fine Art Auction
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FINE ART AUCTION
Two Boston / Cape Ann Artists’ Estates
OVER 200 PAINTINGS To be sold at Auction with No Reserve
THURSDAY, JULY 13th at 7pm
76 Main Street, Amesbury, MA 01913 | 978-388-0400 | 800-822-1417 | mcinnisauctions@yahoo.com

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MEYER MATZKIN (1880-1976)
Meyer Matzkin was born in Svintsyan, Lithuania and immigrated to the United States with his parents. In 1904 the Matzkins settled in Brookline, MA. Largely self-tought as a boy, as an adult, he studied nights at the Copley Society and figure painting at Massachusetts College of Art. His paintings have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1919, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston among numerous others. His subjects include portraits, landscapes, seascapes and flower still lives, largely painted between Boston, Gloucester and Cape Ann. Over his lifetime he taught a number of students privately at his studio at 61 Hanover Street, Boston. Matzkin was once quoted as saying „You can‘t teach art, only the ..mechanics of art.“ Art must come from the heart and artists are born, not made in the „art factories44 of the art schools.44 He always said, „of about one thousand students, only about two will someday come out true artists.
MARIA LISZT (1902-1992)
Maria Veronica Liszt (Kinder) was a second-generation Gloucester artist who was born on March 10, 1902 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father was also an artist who had studied with John Singer Sargent. She was a graduate of the Scott Carbee School of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston. She also studied at the Art Student League of New York and studied landscape painting with such notables as Aldro T. Hibbard, Karl Nordstrom, W. Lester Stevens and Emile A. Gruppe.She was an active member of the Northshore Art Association in Gloucester, the Gloucester Society of Artists, the Academy Art Association and the National Association of Women Painters.
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