LAURIN MC CRACKEN AWS, NWS

Laurin McCracken is a realist watercolorist whose work is largely influenced by the Dutch and Flemish Still Life painters of the 16th and 17th Centuries. His paintings are included in the National Art Museum of China, The Watercolor Museum of Fabriano and the Asian Museum of Watercolor Art, Hainan, China.

Born in Meridian, Mississippi, he attended Auburn University and holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University and a Masters in Architecture and Urban Planning from Princeton University. He has a home and studio in Fort Worth, Texas.

McCracken is an award-winning artist whose paintings have been exhibited in juried shows coast to coast including the Philadelphia Watercolor Society, Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society, Pittsburgh Watercolor Society and the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, California Watercolor Society, Watercolor West, Southern Watercolor Society and the American Watercolor Society.

His work has been included in the Beijing Biennale in 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2017, the Shanghai International Watercolor Biennial Exhibition in 2010 and 2012 and the Shenzhen International Watercolour Biennial 2013 and 2015.


He is a signature member of more than a dozen watercolor societies including the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Watercolor West and Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Southern Watercolor Society. 


He is the current President of the Watercolor Honor Society of the USA.



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