Artist Bio
McCord, George Herbert
(1848-1909) George McCord is a highly regarded artist of the second
generation of the Hudson River School. He was born in New York and
studied at the Hudson River Institute and at Claverack Academy, New
York, with Samuel F.B. Morse and James Fairman. He had a studio on New
York’s 10th Street, home to many artist studios, and later at his home
in Morristown, New Jersey, where he taught art. He traveled widely,
painting in the Berkshires, Adirondacks, and Laurentian Mountains, and
the upper Mississippi. He was among the first artists to painted in
Florida as it was becoming popular. McCord was among a select group of
artists including Thomas Moran, George Inness, Jr., and Irving Couse,
who were invited by the Santa Fe Railroad to paint scenes of the Grand
Canyon; and he was also part of the Arkell Erie Canal Trip. In 1890 he
was commissioned by Andrew Carnegie to paint landscapes around
Carnegie’s Cluny Castle in Scotland. McCord also traveled in England,
France, Holland, and Italy, and lived in Venice and Paris. He was an
associate of the National Academy and a member of the American
Watercolor Society, the New York Watercolor Club, Lotus Club, the
Artists Fund Society, Brooklyn Art Club, Lincoln Club, and president of
both the Salmagundi Club and the Black and White Club. He exhibited at
the Brooklyn and Boston Art Clubs, the Mechanics Institute of Boston,
the New Orleans and St. Louis Expositions, and at the Art Institute of
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