Biografie von Mary SPENCER (1835-1923)

Birth place: Springfield, OH

Addresses: Cincinnati, OH, from 1858; NYC, 1883

Profession: Painter

Studied: C.T. Webber in Springfield & in Cincinnati.

Exhibited: Cincinnati; Boston AC, 1882; NAD, 1883; World Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893; Trans-Mississippi Expo, Omaha, 1898; Pan-Pacific Expo, San Francisco, 1915

Member: Cincinnati Women's AC (founder; first pres., 1892-98)

Work: Cincinnati Art Mus.

Comments: Positions: teacher of oil painting, Springfield Female Seminary, until 1860; portrait colorist, Hoag and Quick, Cincinnati. Specialized in still life subjects, some of which were reproduced as chromolithographs. Also produced miniatures and portraits.

Sources: WW23; G&W; Cincinnati Painters of the Golden Age, 104 (w/illus.); Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 195-196; For Beauty and for Truth, 88 (w/repro.); The Boston AC.