American

David Maxim

U.S. b. 1945
Self-Portrait 46.0850

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McFee was one of many artists who spent summers at the Woodstock Art Colony (the summer school of the Art Students' League). In 1910, McFee made Woodstock his home. After working through impressionism under his teacher, Birge Harrison, McFee became interested in Paul Cézanne's approach to structure and composition. He was introduced to Cézanne's work in 1911, when Andrew Dasburg returned to Woodstock from Europe bringing with him direct knowledge of Cézanne's work and methods. Cézanne's theories on the interrelation of carefully analyzed shapes were very attractive to McFee, who used them to develop his own approach to cubism. He paid strict attention to the closely-knit coherence of line, color and space in his landscapes, his still-lifes, and his portraits

 

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