MAYREDER-OBERMAYER, ROSE. Born in Vienna, 1858.  Pupil of Darnaut and Charmont.  The works of this successful painter of flowers and still-life have been exhibited in Berlin, Vienna, Dresden, and Chicago.  She has a broad, sure touch quite unusual in water-colors.  She has also executed some notable decorative works, one of which, “November,” has attracted much attention.

MCCROSSAN, MARY. Silver and bronze medals, Liverpool; silver medal and honorable mention, Paris.  Has exhibited at Royal Academy, London, at Royal Institute of Oil Colors, and many other English and Scotch exhibitions.  Member of Liverpool Academy of Arts and of the Liverpool Sketching Club.  Born in Liverpool.  Studied at Liverpool School of Art under John Finnie; Paris, under M. Delecluse; St. Ives, Cornwall, under Julius Ollson.

The principal works of this artist are marine subjects and landscapes, and are mostly in private collections.

In the Studio, November, 1900, we read:  “Miss McCrossan’s exhibition of pictures and sketches displayed a pleasant variety of really clever work, mostly in oils, with a few water-colors and pastels.  In each medium her color is strong, rich, and luminous, and her drawing vigorous and certain.

“While this artist’s landscape subjects are intelligently selected and attractively rendered, there is unusual merit in her marine pictures, composed mainly from the fisher-craft of the Isle of Man and the neighborhood of St. Ives, and recording effects of brilliant sunshine lighting up white herring boats lying idly on intensely reflective blue sea, or aground on the harbor mud at low tide.  There is a fascination in the choice color treatment of these characteristic pictures.”

MCLAUGHLIN, MARY LOUISE M. Honorable mention, Paris Salon, 1878; silver medal, Paris Exposition, 1889; gold medal, Atlanta, 1895; bronze medal, Buffalo, 1900.  Member of the Society of Arts, London; honorary member of National Mineral Painters’ League, Cincinnati.  Born in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Pupil of Cincinnati Art Academy and of H. F. Farny and Frank Duveneck in private classes.

Miss McLaughlin has painted in oil and water-colors and exhibited in various places, as indicated by the honors she has received.  Having practised under- and over-glaze work on pottery, as well as porcelain etching and decorative etching on metals, she is now devoting herself to making the porcelain known as Losanti Ware.

Of a recent exhibition, 1903, a critic wrote:  “Perhaps the most beautiful and distinguished group in the exhibition is that of Miss McLaughlin, one of the earliest artistic workers in clay of the United States.  She sends a collection of lovely porcelain vases, of a soft white tone and charming in contour.  Some of these have open-work borders, others are decorated in relief, and the designs are tinted with delicate jade greens, dark blues, or salmon pinks.  This ware goes by the name of Losanti, from the early name of Cincinnati, L’Osantiville.”