About Ann Wyeth McCoy
Lived 1915 – 2005 (aged 90). Ann Wyeth McCoy was an American painter, composer and pianist.
American composer, pianist and painter Ann Wyeth McCoy (March 15, 1915 – November 10, 2005) was the youngest daughter of artist-illustrator N.C. Wyeth and the fourth of his five children. She was born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
Life and career McCoy had a life-long interest in antique porcelain dolls, which began in 1923 when she received her first doll as a gift from her parents on her eighth birthday. Each subsequent birthday and Christmas during her childhood, she received another doll. From 1972 to 2004 her doll collection was exhibited at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford during the Christmas holidays.
McCoy studied piano with William Hatton Greene, composition with Harl McDonald at the University of Pennsylvania, and painting with her father. In 1934 her composition Christmas Fantasy was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, with Leopold Stokowski conducting. In 1935, she married John W. McCoy II, a young artist whom she had met when he studied with her father at the Chadds Ford studio. They had three children, John Denys, Anna Brelsford, and Maude Robin.
McCoy composed many songs for special people or occasions, such as a tribute to a White House dinner honoring her brother Andrew Wyeth; lullabies for the children of friends and family; and songs about art such as her brother's paintings or a sculpture by Degas. She also set poetry to music for piano.
Works Her musical compositions include:
Orchestra
Christmas Fantasy In Memoriam (dedicated to her father N.C. Wyeth) Maine Summer
Piano Anna Kuerner Black Angus Brook in Winter Cannibal Shore Chambered Nautilus Children's Pieces Christmas Christmas Tree Embers Fog For Joel Wyeth Nields For John McCoy George VI: Death of a King (The) German Glen Mere Church, Maine Grandfather's Sleigh Helga Suite: Chorale In Memoriam: to NCW In Memory of Robin's Dog "Charlie" Irish Dance Lament for Christina Olson and Her World Maine Preludes March of the Knights Mort de Nureyev Mushrooms by Jamie Music Box for Betsy Wyeth Music for Jamie Newell Patriot - March for Ralph Cline Portrait of My Father N.C. Wyeth Prelude: After the Swans Reverie: In Memoriam Robert F. Kennedy ''Sarabande Piano Music of Ann Wyeth McCoy, Book Two: Of Paintings and a Sculpture by Dr. Donna Mulzet Beech, 2020 The Natural Thing to Do: the Music of Ann Wyeth McCoy, a documentary by Denys McCoy narrated by Richard Chamberlain
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Who was Ann Wyeth McCoy?
American composer, pianist and painter (1915–2005)
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Ann Wyeth McCoy was born on 15 March 1915 in Chadds Ford Historic District.
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Ann Wyeth McCoy died on 10 November 2005.
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Ann Wyeth McCoy was a painter, composer and pianist.
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Ann Wyeth McCoy was American.
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