Discipline: Visual Art

Margaret Olney-McBride

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Chevy Chase, MD
MacDowell Fellowships: 1984
Margaret Olney-McBride (1928-2015) was an American painter and artist who received her B.F.A. at The University of Iowa and her M.F.A. at The American University. Margaret was the recipient of the David Lloyd Kreeger Award (1971) and has been a resident fellow of the Yaddo Foundation, the Ossabow Island Project, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. During her career as an artist, Margaret taught art privately and at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, as well as the University of Iowa. Margaret had many individual and group exhibitions of her work, including the Foundry Gallery, the Watkins Gallery at American University, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Margaret had the ability to see the beauty of the natural world around her and put it onto canvas. Some of her favorite places to paint were in the south of France, Sweetbriar, Virginia, Ireland, Great Falls of Maryland and the Finger Lakes of Central New York.

Studios

Adams

Margaret Olney-McBride worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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