Mary Beth McKenzie

{{short description|American painter}}

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| name = Mary Beth McKenzie

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| caption = Self portrait of Mary Beth McKenzie.

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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1946}}

| birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio

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| nationality = American

| education = Studied with Robert Philipp, Robert Brackman, Jose Cintron, Daniel Greene, Burton Silverman

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• School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Cooper School of Art, Cleveland
• National Academy of Design
• Art Students League }}

| known_for = painter of contemporary figures

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| style = Realism

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| elected = National Academy, 1994

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Mary Beth McKenzie, N.A. (born 1946) is an American painter of contemporary figures in the realism style. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio and currently resides in New York City where she teaches art at National Academy of Design[http://www.nationalacademy.org/faculty.asp?char=M Biography at National Academy website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090706203830/http://www.nationalacademy.org/faculty.asp?char=M |date=2009-07-06 }} and the Art Students League of New York.[http://www.theartstudentsleague.org/bio_mary.html Biography at Art Students League web site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528172511/http://theartstudentsleague.org/bio_mary.html |date=2009-05-28 }}

Her works of art are currently in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum,{{Cite web|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/159585|title=Brooklyn Museum|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org|access-date=2020-01-08}} the Museum of the City of New York, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Butler Institute of American Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Art Students League of New York, and the National Academy of Design.

In 2008 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchased two monotypes, Front Porch Restaurant[http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/drawings_and_prints/front_porch_restaurant_mary_beth_mckenzie/objectview.aspx?OID=90058000&collID=9&dd1=9 Metropolitan Museum of Art permanent collection: 'Front Porch Restaurant'] and Diner (2nd stage),[http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/drawings_and_prints/untitled_diner_mary_beth_mckenzie/objectview.aspx?OID=90058004&collID=9&dd1=9 Metropolitan Museum of Art permanent collection: 'Diner'] as well as a plate for Front Porch Restaurant and Diner (2nd stage). The Metropolitan Museum of Art permanent collection also includes thirteen monotypes from McKenzie's Circus as well as three oils and three sketch books also by McKenzie.

McKenzie authored and provided artwork for the book, A Painterly Approach, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, October 1987.[https://www.amazon.com/Painterly-Approach-Mary-Beth-Mckenzie/dp/0823034925 Painterly Approach book] She has also contributed articles to several magazines.

McKenzie was elected to the National Academy in 1994.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalacademy.org/living-national-academicians|title=Living National Academicians|website=National Academy of Design|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-08}} She has won numerous awards.

She was educated at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, National Academy of Design, and Art Students League of New York, and the Cooper School of Art in Cleveland, and has studied with Robert Brackman, Daniel Greene, and Burton Silverman, among others.

Several of her works appear in the movie Flannel Pajamas.

She was interviewed by Ira Goldberg in the art journal [http://www.asllinea.org/mary-beth-mckenzie-an-interview/ LINEA]

McKenzie was featured in a solo show at the Erie Art Museum, "A Life in Art" from July 13 to September 24, 2018. See the External links for more details.