 Mary Elizabeth Maxes is primarily known as Mary Elizabeth King
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from Auction House Records.
Early Evening View of a Sailboat on a Lake
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Springfield, Missiouri on January 19, 1899. King studied at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Academie Julian in Paris, Chelsea Art School in London, and with Savini in Florence. By the late 1930s she was a resident of San Francisco. In 1947 she married James J. Loftus. She died in Washington, DC on January 15, 1991. Primarily a miniature painter, she also was a competent landscape painter.
Exhibited: California Society of Miniature Painters, 1938; Society of Washington Artists.
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Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Who’s Who in American Art, 1940; Social Security Death Index; SF Chronicle, 11-20-1947, 38/3.
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