biography of Bruce MCKAIN (1900-1990)

Birth place: Freetown, IN

Addresses: Provincetown, MA, 1928-on

Profession: Painter

Studied: Herron AI, c.1918-22; C.W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, 1928-33

Exhibited: NA, 1938; Provincetown AA, 1934, 1936, 1939; WFNY, 1939

Member: Provincetown AA; Beachcombers Cl.

Comments: He lived in Provincetown except for war work in Stonington, CT (1943) and stage set painter for Ringling Bros. Circus in Sarasota, FL (1955-56). His paintings have been compared to those of Aldro T. Hibbard.

Sources: WW40; Crotty, 121; Provincetown Painters, 150