Born Douglass, 1883 (?). Painter. Self-taught.

The following is from Linda Hopkinson Cain, Artist:

My family has been collecting Mae Bennett Brown paintings for years. My Mom is 82 and received a floral Pastel as a high school graduation present. My Grandmother would go down to Rockport and buy her artwork when she was relatively unknown. When I attended Arizona State University Art School I found an original Rockport Art Association catalog in the ASU Hayden Library and copied the information, but have since lost this information. It had member information and a picture. Typical catalog.

What I remember is that she was born in England and moved to Rockport, MA and joined the Rockport Art Association I think in the 20's. She was possibly one of the first members.

Born in Nottingham, England, Mae Bennett-Brown studied in England at the Derby School, and at an early age, passed Royal Academy of London judges for the Bradford Exhibition, a prestigious recognition.

She exhibited in London, Leicester, Nottingham and Derby, England, and then moving to Massachusetts, had one-woman shows at the Boston City Club and Public Library. She also directed the Little Theatre Group in Boston for six years.

Submitted by Peter Kostoulakos of Lowell, Massachusetts, who took the information from a 1940 Rockport Art Association member's catalog.