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|  Director of the Minneapolis School of Art from 1917 to 1926, Mary Cheney was a painter, teacher and designer. Her art studies included the University of Minnesota and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. Teachers were Denman Ross and George Elmer Browne. She exhibited her work at the Minnesota State Fair in 1917.
In Minneapolis, she had a design business, The Artcraft Shop, and as a result of her design work is regarded as one of the pioneers of in America of designing greeting cards. She was also one of the founding members of the Handicraft Guild of Minneapolis, which she later served as a Guild educator.
Her archived papers at the Minnesota Historical Society have sketches by her that include bookplates, greeting cards, stationery, stained glass windows and andirons.
Sources:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Michael Conforti, Minnesota 1900: Art and Life on the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1915
http://early20thcenturycards.org/index.html
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