Emma Fordyce MacRae

Born to American parents, Miss Fordyce received her early education at Miss Chapin's, the Brearley School, and at Ingleside in New Milford, Connecticut. Later she studied at the New York School of Art under Kenneth Hayes Miller and Louis Mora and at the Art Students League under Blumenschein and Reid.

She had one-person shows at the Corona Mundi International Art Center of the Roerich Museum (1930), the Ainslie Galleries, Grand Central Art Galleries (1936), Cosmopolitan Art Association (1937) and the MacDowell Club (1941).

Her first marriage was to Thomas MacRae (1910) and her second to Homer F. Swift (1922). She was proposed to the National Academy by Ivan Olinsky.