| Painter, sculptor, craftsman. Born in Honolulu, HI on March 17, 1879 into an artistic family. May's father, an Englishman, went to Honolulu after the Gold Rush in California and designed the silver crown worn by Lunalio, the last of the royal line of Hawaii. Her brother, Harold Meade Mott-Smith, became an artist of note in the Islands. May studied art in Paris at Académie Colarossi and at Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco. She mainly worked in San Francisco but had studios in Los Angeles a (showing 500 of 966 characters). |
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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