Mary Bradish Titcomb

Mary Bradish Titcomb (1858 – 1927) was an American painter, mainly of portraits and landscapes. She is often grouped subsequent to the American Impressionists.

A indigenous of Windham, New Hampshire, upon graduation from tall school
Titcomb studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School before obliging a position as a drawing literary in the public schools of Brockton, Massachusetts, where she remained for fourteen years back resigning, in 1889, to testing painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her instructors there included Edmund Charles Tarbell, Philip Leslie Hale, and Frank Weston Benson. In the 1890s she went to Paris to study gone Jules Joseph Lefebvre and to travel. She later returned to Boston, taking studio atmosphere at the Harcourt Studios, where everything three of her teachers kept space. In 1895 she became a zealot of the Copley Society and began exhibiting locally; from 1904 to 1927 she showed bill in 29 exhibits at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She began signing her make known as "M. Bradish Titcomb" in 1905 to avoid prejudice neighboring her gender. The thesame year saying her making a sketching trip to the artists' colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut, a center for the American Impressionists; this vacation seems to have cemented her fascination in the style.

In 1915, Titcomb's Portrait of Geraldine J. – the mommy of actress Jane Russell – was shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and purchased by President Woodrow Wilson; another portrait, of Frank P. Sibley, was reproduced in the Boston Globe. During this become old her discharge duty was shown in a traveling exhibition following that of Cecilia Beaux, Lydia Field Emmet, Jean MacLane, and Lillian Genth, winning plaudits; she was moreover a devotee of "The Group", a collect of Boston women painters organized in 1916 by Lucy S. Conant which exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum and the Detroit Institute of Art together with 1917 and 1919. She continued keeping a studio in Boston, later at the Fenway Studios and the Grundmann Building, but expanded to spaces in Provincetown and Marblehead as well. She next traveled throughout New England, and when to Nogales, Arizona, to visit her brother, as without difficulty as to Mexico and California. She showed play at the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 and the Third, Fifth, and Ninth Biennials at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and received trustworthy mention from the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts in 1917 in Hartford.

Titcomb's painting Summer Girls, of c. 1912–13, was included in the inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, American Women Artists 1830–1930, in 1987.