Born in Sidney Plains, NY in 1849, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, Mary Fish studied art in New York. She and her mother made the train ride to California in 1875 and settled in Santa Barbara, joining her brother who had settled there two years earlier.
Mary soon began studying painting with Henry Chapman Ford. Maintaining a studio in her home in the Keeler cottage on Anapamu Street, she gave lessons in painting, drawing, and sketching. The artist had a st (showing 500 of 1151 characters). |
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