About William Mackay
Lived 1876 – 1939 (aged 62–63). William Mackay was an American painter.
Ceiling Mural. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Buildingthumb St. Nicholas (serial)William Andrew Mackay (1876 - July 26, 1939) was an American artist who created a series of murals about the achievements of Theodore Roosevelt. Those three murals, completed in 1936, were installed beneath the rotunda in the Roosevelt Memorial Hall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Less known but also important, he was a major contributor to the development of ship camouflage in the United States during World War I.
Biography Mackay was born in 1876 in Philadelphia to Elizabeth J. and Frank F. Mackay.
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Who was William Mackay?
American artist (1876-1939)
When was William Mackay born?
William Mackay was born in 1876.
When did William Mackay die?
William Mackay died on 26 July 1939.
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William Mackay was a painter.
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William Mackay was American.
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