Born into a Quaker family at Milton-on-the-Hudson, New York, Mary Foote came from a family that fostered female accomplishment as well as male, and she became one of the foremost female illustrators of the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
She was also a successful writer. At age 17, she entered a three-year program at the Cooper Union Institute of Design for Women, and she became a noted wood engraver and illustrated books for Fields, Osgood and Co. Her first comm (showing 500 of 3410 characters). |
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Mary Foote is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
New York Armory Show of 1913
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