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April Issue 2004
Golf Club in Fort Mill, SC, Offers Exhibit of Works by Late Stephen R. McCrae
The Leroy Springs Artists based in Fort Mill, SC, are planning a special exhibition of works by the late Stephen R. McCrae Sr. during their annual Fest-i-Fun Art Show and Sale this May 7 - 9, 2004, at the Golf Club in Fort Mill. This show is free to the public.
"Steve was our founder and president since
1981 when the group was formed. The group has held annual art
shows and sales at the Golf Club in Fort Mill every year, encouraged
and directed by Steve. He is greatly missed by all of us,"
says Jennifer K. Hamilton member of Leroy Springs Artists.
McCrae was a talented artist even as a child. His art studies
at theUniversity of South Carolina were interrupted in 1942 when
he enlisted in the US Army Air Corps. After the war he resumed
his studies and at the encouragement of his mentor Catherine Rembert
left USC in 1946 to study at Parson's School of Design in New
York City. He was able to support himself by selling his oil paintings
and ink drawings while in New York.
McCrae worked in art related fields until his
retirement in 1981. Even then he remained a consultant to his
former employers at Springs. One of his duties was director of
the Annual Springs Art Show. He took up watercolor painting
also in 1981 which led to founding the Leroy Springs Art Group,
and then to developing the Leroy Springs Watercolor Workshops
that are still held seven weeks a year in Myrtle Beach, SC.
McCrae was honored in 1998 by the Governor of SC with the Elizabeth
O'Neill Verner Award for Outstanding Contributions by an Individual
in the Arts. He received the Keepers of the Culture Award by the
York County Culture and Heritage Commission in 2000. Besides founding
The Leroy Springs Artists, McCrae was also instrumental in the
founding of the Fort Mill Community Playhouse.
For more info check our SC Institutional Gallery listings,
call Jenny Hamilton at 803-329-3972 or e-mail at (Jennifer@cetlink.net
).
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