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Mary Bradish Titcomb

(1856–1927)
Mary Bradish Titcomb began her career at the age of eighteen as an art teacher in the public school system of Brockton, Massachusetts where she continued teaching for fourteen years. Titcomb then resigned from teaching and moved to boston to study at the Boston Museum School. Her teachers were Edmund Tarbell and Frank Benson. In the 1890s she went to Europe to study with Jules Lefebvre at the Academy des Beaux Arts in Paris. She also visited Spain, Italy, and England.

When she returned to Boston she took a studio adjoining those of Tarbell, Benson, and Philip Hale at Harcourt Studios. She became a member of the Copley Society and began exhibiting her work in Boston.

Titcomb generally painted people and landscapes in the Impressionist style. Betweem 1904 and 1927 she exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She often signed her work M. Bradish Titcomb. She was also an original member of "The Group" a Boston women's painters group founded by Lucy Conant in 1916.

Titcomb had studios in Provincetown and Marblehead, Massachusetts, and spent summers painting along the New England coast.

Though records of her time spent in Old Lyme are scarce, her paintings provide clear evidence of her presence. She exhibited The Lieutenant River at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1906, Morning at Boxwood at the National Academy of Design in 1911, and in 1913 she presented The Veranda, Boxwood Manor at the Lyme Art Association annual. Her painting of the iconic church at Old Lyme is one of the few that significantly incorporates figures into the composition.


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