LONDON; WOMAN FANNING FIRE; A nineteenth century American artist, S. G. McCutcheon has been the source of somewhat of a mystery. His name appears in no standard reference source for 19th century American art. Information, however, has come to the front from three sources; the Minutes of the New York Etching Club, a New York Times article, entitled, "An Artist's Sudden Death: A Member of the Water-Color Society..." and J. R. W. Hitchcock, who wrote the text for the folio Some Modern Etchings, details follow below. From the Minutes of the New York Etching Club one learns that Stephen McCutcheon was nominated for membership in 1881. My Ain Fireside was first exhibited at this institution in 1884. The unknown author of the article cited above claims that S. G. McCutcheon suddenly died in his Broadway studio from a "congestive chill." He also writes that the artist contributed illustrations to such publications as the Illustrated London News, the Century, St. Nicholas Magazine and Harper & Brothers illustrated periodical, Harper's Weekly. Stephen G. McCutcheon exhibited at the National Academy and was a member of the Water-Color Society, Salmagundi Club and the New York Etching Club. The author concludes that McCutcheon died at about the age of forty, and was at work upon a series of illustrations under the title of, "Viceregal Courts of London.

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