Mary Augusta Heister Reid - Artist Info

About Mary Augusta Heister Reid

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Mary Baer Hiester
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    Mary Hiester Reid

    Born - Reading,Pennsylvania, United States, 1854
    Died - Toronto, Ontario, 1921

    While studying at the Pennsylvania Academy, Mary Hiester met and later married the Canadian artist George Agnew Reid. The couple moved to Toronto in 1885, and lived on Indian Road and later in Wychwood Park. During each summer between 1891 and 1916, they lived in their home at Onteora, New York.

    The couple traveled five times to Europe, where Reid studied at the Academy Colarossi*, Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands. Reid showed almost every year with the Royal Canadian Academy* and the Ontario Society of Artists*.

    She was a prolific and financially-successful artist and was best k...

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