McKie Trotter
was born in Manchester, Georgia. He studied at William and Mary
College (B. A. 1940), at the University of Georgia and with Lamar
Dodd, Alan Kuzmicki and Jean Charlot. During WW II he was a
prisoner of war in Germany and received a purple heart. He moved to
Fort Worth after the war and in 1946 received his first major
recognition with the Pepsi-Cola Fellowship Award. He was hired to
teach art at TCU and became one of the leading members of the
modernist circle of artists that became known as the Fort Worth
School. A talented printmaker, watercolorist and painter his works
were exhibited venues i.e., Texas Watercolor Society, The Southern
States Art League, New Orleans Art Association, Fort Worth Art
Association, Texas Fine Arts Association, D. D. Feldman Exhibitions,
Texas General, The Grand Central Art Gallery in New York, and at
The McLean Gallery in Dallas. He influenced several generations of
artists teaching at Texas Christian University and at the Fort Worth
Art Center School.