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Mary MacMonnies-Low
Mary L. Macomber
Clara T. McChesney
Evelyn McCormick
Jane Roma McElroy
Mary Louise McLaughlin
Anna Lea Merritt
Mary Nimmo Moran

Mary Louise Fairchild MacMonnies-Low (1858 - 1946)
 

Between Neighbors 1891 (another copy here); also known as Tea al Fresco or Five O'Clock Tea. (MacMonnies-Low taking a tea break with wife of fellow artist)-- exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Portrait of Berthe Helene MacMonnies --representative work

Garden at Le Moutier c. 1900--representative work
 

Mont Saint Michel, France--representative work
 

Goddard Women 1922--
representative work

June Morning 1888 (image unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
(Stooping young woman plucks flower from French
kitchen-garden of poppies and vegetables; light blue
haze in air; nearby, a nursemaid holds an infant.)

Primitive Woman 1893--go to Mural Page.
Mural in Women's Building, 1893 Exposition.

A descendant of the Puritan Governor William Bradford, Mary MacMonnies-Low was born in Connecticut and studied art at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and at the Académie Julian in Paris.  She married sculptor Frederick MacMonnies whom she met while studying in France. They lived in France in the 1890s, summering at Giverny near the famous impressionist Monet. However, her mural for the 1893 World Fair was composed in the primitive-heroic academic style. Both MacMonnies were highly recognized for their work at the Fair. Later divorced, she married mural painter Will H. Low and moved to New York, dropping the "MacMonnies" name from all her work.  She won a medal at the 1893 Exposition.

Interlude in Giverny--little biographical information on Mary is available online, but some is here.
Two images: Roses Et Lys and Visite D'un Parc; here--click on MacMonnies' name (same two images).
Spanish Lady Playing Guitar 1889
In the Park
In the Nursery 1897-8.
The Garden At Le Moutier, c. 1900 (or here).
10 images--click on "Image Gallery" and on "Biography."
4 images--scroll down to "Macmonnies"

Mary Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Macomber (1861-1916)
 

Rosamund the Fair, or Fate Spinning the Thread of Time (1915)
[Delaware Art Museum  http://www.delart.org]
--representative work
 

Saint Catherine 1896--representative work
[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]
 

The Annunciation c. 1892--
(White clothing, dappled bluish green background.)
Exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition
and published in Century Magazine, Dec. 1982.
 

My Mother (The Hour-Glass)
[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]
--representative work
 

Love Awakening Memory 1892 (image unavailable)--
(Two white-robed figures in white marble cloister, pinkish
background; pensive charm and medieval effects) and
Larned and Other Critics at the Fair (image unavailable)
both exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Mary L. Macomber was born in Massachusetts and studied art under Frank Duveneck and at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She often exhibited at the National Academy of Design show in New York City and at other major museums and galleries.  Many of her paintings were lost in a fire in her studio in 1903.

More links/images
Night and Sleep 1902
The Bearer of the Soul--1915; or The Bearer of the Soul 1915
My Angel-1900 drawing crayon; larger version here
Biography/11 images--click on "Image Gallery" and on "biography.

Clara T(aggart) McChesney (1860 - 1928)

Portrait of a Beautiful Young Woman 1918
(supposedly a portrait of Mrs. Adolphe Wenzell, wife of a former Director
of a Boston Bank, but elsewhere it is titled Portrait of Zillah Thompson)--
 representative portrait.
 

Zinnias--representative work

Fresh Flowers 1924--representative work

Still Life and The Old Cobbler
(images unavailable)--two watercolors
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Clara McChesney was born in California where she studied art at the San Francisco Art School, the Gotham Art School, and at the Colarossi School in Paris.  She lived the rest of her life in New York and Europe.  She won two medals at the 1893 Exposition and exhibited two pieces at the 1894 Midwinter Fair in California. Some of her paintings were in the style of the Dutch school.

Biography--scroll down to her name
3 images--click on "Image Gallery" (Portrait of Zillah Thompson; Mother and Child; Snow Covered Cabins).

M(ary) Evelyn McCormick (1869-1948)
 

[Title unknown]--typical marine.

Boats at Dock--typical marine.

A Gondola in Venice--
representative work
 

Bisque House, St. Jean de Luz--
representative work
 

Afternoon, Old San Luis Rey Mission, Cal. and
Morning at Giverny, France (images unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

California artist Evelyn McCormick studied at the California School of Design and in Paris at the Academie Julian. After 1892, she divided her time between San Francisco and Monterey where she often painted the adobes and mission buildings in that area. One of the first women artists in California to embrace impressionism, she was often compared to Monet and Hassam.

Biography
Biography--scroll down the page.
The Sherman-Halleck Adobe, Monterey 1925
Biography/2 images--click on "biography" and on "Image Gallery."

Mary E. McDowell ( ?? - ?? )
 

Stained Glass Window--exhibited in the
Women's Building, 1893 Exposition.

Mary E. McDowell was an American artist.  No other information about her is available online.

Jane Roma McElroy (1867-1923)

Diamond Head, Hawaii--
representative work.
 

It is unclear which work(s) McElroy
 exhibited at the 1893 Exposition.

Born in California, Jane Roma McElroy studied art at the San Francisco School of Design and with Emil Carlsen and other artist-teachers.  She was known for her fruit, floral, and Chinese genre paintings.

Mary Louise McLaughlin (1847-1939)

Grace May McLaughlin 1891
[Cincinnati Art Museum]
--representative work

Woodland Scene and Head of a Girl
 (images unavailable)--two etchings exhibited
in Women's Building, 1893 Exposition.

Ohio artist Mary Louise McLaughlin studied art at the Cincinnati Art Academy.  Although her original goal was evidently portrait painting, she is now known for her ceramics and especially for inventing a technique of underglaze decoration.  She wrote several books, including China Painting which is now credited with launching the china painting movement in America.

"Ali Baba" Vase 1880 -- scroll down the page. Another copy: Ali Baba Vase.
Vase --scroll down the page.
Porcelain Vase
Rare Losanti Vase
Plaque: Portrait of Esther McLaughlin (The Artist's Niece)
Charger

Anna (Massey) Lea Merritt (1844-1930)
 

Cecilia Farrar-- representative portrait

Minna Sohia Farrar Holding a Hare representative work

Dame Frederica--representative work
 

Portrait of Emily Cadwalader-- representative portrait.

Eldest Children of Thomas, Second Baron Robartes (title unknown)--representative portrait.

Children with Pheasant 1883--
representative work

Portrait of Mrs. Reginald DeKoven and Eve
c. 1891 (images unavailable)--exhibited
 in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Born in Pennsylvania, Anna Lea Merritt was privately educated in a Philadelphia Quaker family.  After studying art in Dresden, she married her London teacher (Henry Merritt) in 1871, only to become a widow shortly thereafter.  Settling permanently in an English village, Merritt often exhibited at the London Royal Academy and in Philadelphia, and won two medals, plus a diploma, at the 1893 Exposition.  Her painting Eve Overcome with Remorse was the first work by a woman ever purchased by the British government.  Many of her paintings like War (1883) show a strong Pre-Raphaelite and allegorical influence.

Biography or here.
Anna Lea Merritt--short biography and four images of her paintings.
A Duet
The Wood Ponds, Epping Forest
4 Pre-Raphaelite images--includes Lamia, the Serpent Woman.
3 etchings (including Ophelia) on theatre subjects--enlarge for a better view.
4 images--click on "Image Gallery" and on "biography" (The Fur Wrap; Portrait of Miss Ethel 1888; The Letter 1903).
Portrait of Miss Ethel D'Arcy aged 6
A Patrician Mother.
Portrait of Sir Gilbert Scott After Richmond
Portrait of Horace Howard Furness
3 images
Mother and Child 1918--attributed to Merritt

Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899)
 

Home of the Muskrat 1885--(titled elsewhere Haunt of the Muskrat)
It is unclear if this is one of Moran's etchings exhibited
 in Women's building, 1893 Exposition.

Between the Gloaming & the Mirk When the Rye Came Home 1883
(or here)--etching exhibited in Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

Point Isabel, Florida  1887--etching
exhibited in Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

Twilight, Easthampton 1880--etching exhibited
in Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

Forest--It is unclear if this is Florida Forest which was
exhibited in the Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

These etchings by Moran were also exhibited in the
 Women's Building at the 1893 Exposition:

• Summer, Easthampton.

• Edge of Georgia Pond.

• Bridge over the Delaware.

• Hunt of the Muskrat.

• Conway Castle, Wales.

• Bushkill Bridge.

• Evening, Easthampton.

Born in Scotland, the five-year old Mary Nimmo Moran and her family emigrated to Pennsylvania after her mother died. In 1862 she married her neighbor, the famous landscape painter Thomas Moran who taught her drawing, painting, and etching. By the 1880s she was considered America's foremost etcher and became internationally famous when, on the basis of her etching The Goose Pond, she was elected into the Royal Society of Painters and Etchers in London. They did not know she was a woman and she remained the only woman member of that organization for years.

Biography--click on "biography"
Biography/history of Etching Movement--long, informative article
Biography of Thomas Moran--detailed biography that includes information on his wife Mary.
The Cliff Dwellers of New York. Alternately titled, A Renaissance of Shanty Town 1881 (or here).
2 etchings--Solitude 1880, and Gardiner's Bay From Fresh Pond, Long Island 1884.
My Neighbor's Home--Easthampton
Old Lindens--Near Easthampton
Interior of California Forest 1888
Three Mile Harbor Road: Twilight 1880--scroll down the page.
Hook Pond, Easthampton, 1884
Forest Scene or here
Goose Pond, East Hampton, Long Island 1881
The Barrens, East Hampton 1879
Where Through the Willows Creaking Loud, Is Heard the Busy Mill 1886
 

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