Background
Mccrady, John was born on September 4, 1911 in Canton, Mississippi, United States. Son of Edward and Mary Ormond (Tucker) Mccrady.
Mccrady, John was born on September 4, 1911 in Canton, Mississippi, United States. Son of Edward and Mary Ormond (Tucker) Mccrady.
Student of University of Mississippi, University of Pennsylvania, 1930-1932, New Orleans Art School, 1933, Art Students’ League of New York, 1934.
Director of the John McCrady Art School, New Orleans. Permanent exhibits: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia., Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, Newark (New Jersey) Art Museum, San Francisco Art Museum, Swope Museum Art, Terre Haute, Indiana, National Business Machine Corporation, Mary Buie Museum, Oxford, Mississippi.
One-man shows at Downtown Gallery, New Orleans, Mary Buie Museum. Completed series of paintings for United States Navy, The Story of the Building of the PBY, 1945. Executed mural, Holy Communion, New Orleans, 1954, Bank of Oxford (Mississippi), 1969.
Married Mary B. Basso, September 11, 1937.