Biography from AskART:
| A naive, primitive genre painter in colors and bold patterns suggestive of the Fauves in France, she used crude paints from berry juices and brick dust and did lofty subjects that included Biblical stories and George Washington. She was a woman whose life is shrouded in mystery.
In 1800, she arrived in Greenville in Greene County, New York from an unspecified town in Connecticut in the company of a Miss Brundage to whom reportedly she was romantically involved. According to rumor, both had experienced sad love affairs (some said they had been Methodist missionaries) and in 1810 started new lives in the wilderness of the Catskills.
They built their own log house, and Miss Brundage farmed while Mary Ann Willson created her watercolors and sold them to local farmers. When Miss Brundage died in 1825, Willson was devastated by grief, left the area, and no record remains of where she went.
Source: "American Women Artists" by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein
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