| Harry McCormick | ||
| Birth Date: 1942 |
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Artist Gallery |
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| Harry McCormick was born in 1942. He is self-taught in all media: oil, watercolor, pen and ink, charcoal, and lithography. His portraits are of anonymous citizens going about their everyday lives. He may, for example, portray two young women musing between cups of coffee in a sumptuous romantic salon; a solitary man ruminating in a meticulously restored Victorian tavern; or the old meeting the new in an art deco diner.
While McCormick remains involved in what some might consider the questionable enterprise of painting photographically accurate likenesses, he also reveals a state-of-mind. The artist’s capacity for minute description disguises a more private vision. Neither romantic nor glamorous, McCormick’s closely observed naturalism has the capacity to arrest our attention and persuade us to share both his fascination with the piece and the latent content.
McCormick’s images are so rich in detail and design that the inclination is to ignore his more formal accomplishments in the image. |
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