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RUTH MAE McCRANE (AM. 1929-2002)
Houston folk artist, Ruth Mae McCrane studied at the National Gallery in Washington D.C. under H. Stuart Trevinus. She received a fellowship at the International Institute of Arts and Letters in Kreslinger, Switzerland in 1961. Dr. McCrane received this honor when her student, Edward Louis Mills won First Prize in the International Red Cross Student Art Shore. Ambassador Roundtree accepted the Silver Scroll Award for Edward Louis Mills in Pakistan in 1963.
As an Art educator, her student’s won top awards during her teaching career from 1952-1985 in local, state, region, national and international competitions. As an artist, she has completed over thirteen murals in churches. The latest work includes the complete interior of St. Nicholas Catholic Church which was divided in to three categories; mural, restoration of statues, and gilding the main altar stations of the cross and the Holy water font.
All of her works represent people and places where the artist has lived, visited or worked for a period of time as an Art and Spanish educator.
In 1989, Dr. McCrane started painting for the House of Blues and has works in their restaurants in New Orleans, Cambridge Mass, Los Angeles, Orlando, and Chicago. The House of Blues in Chicago will open November 26, 1996. The work for the Chicago restaurant will be reminiscent of the artists life in Texas 1936-1970 A.D. Dr. McCrane currently lives in Houston, Texas.
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