This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Windham, New Hampshire, Mary Titcomb was a professional artist in the Boston area and regularly traveled and painted in the West. She was also a long-time art teacher in the Massachusetts public schools, a career she ended in 1901 when she was age forty-four to become a full-time artist.
She attended public schools and at the age of twenty eight moved to Boston where she lived at the YWCA and studied at Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Boston Museum School with Edmund Tarbell, Philip Leslie Hale, and Frank W Benson. She established herself as a highly independent woman, becoming Director of Drawing for Brockton public schools and showing regularly at the Copley Society.
In 1898, she began traveling West, sketching in California, Arizona and Mexico. For some time, she lived and worked in Fenway Studios on Ipswich Street, but in 1920, bought a home in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
She was a member of the New York Water Color Club, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. One of her paintings, "Portrait of Geraldine J, was purchased by Woodrow Wilson for the White House in Washington D.C.
Source: Vose Galleries, Boston |
Biography from The Redfern Gallery:
| Mary Bradish Titcomb
(1856 - 1927)
Mary Bradish Titcomb began a career teaching drawing in the public schools of Brockton, MA. In 1888, she resigned from her position as director of drawing and moved to Boston to begin artistic studies under Boston Impressionists Edmund C. Tarbell and Frank W. Benson, and at the Boston Museum School with Philip Hale.
In 1895, Titcomb traveled to Paris to study with Jules Lefebvre. On subsequent trips to Europe she painted in Italy, Spain and England, always returning to Boston, where she was inducted into the Copley Society, the most prestigious art society in New England. She began signing her works, "M. Bradish Titcomb" in 1895 to avoid discrimination as a woman artist.
Titcomb's winters were spent in her Boston studio painting commissioned portraits, while summers were spent traveling abroad and painting the New England coast, where she owned studios in Provincetown and Marblehead. President Woodrow Wilson's purchase of a painting by Titcomb at the Corcoran Art Gallery in 1915 and his public praise of her work brought the artist additional success and fame.
Beginning around 1917, when Titcomb joined other women painters who called themselves "The Group," her painting style evolved from traditional Boston Impressionism to one that integrated the stylistic ideas of modernism. She is one of select few women considered integral to the Boston School tradition. A consistent, vibrant painter, Titcomb often included architecture in her compositions, around which she developed her landscapes and figures.
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Biography from William A. Karges Fine Art - Beverly Hills:
| Mary Bradish Titcomb was born in Windham, New Hampshire, in 1858. Her formal art education was at the Boston Normal Art School, and the Boston Museum School.
For many years she was a school teacher in the Boston area, eventually quitting in 1901 to devote herself to painting full-time. She completed a number of portraits during her life, but is best remembered for her impressionist landscapes and coastal villages of New England. |
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Mary Titcomb is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Women Artists
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