About Mary Bradish Titcomb

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    Born in Windham, New Hampshire, Mary Titcomb was a professional artist in the Boston area and regularly traveled and painted in the West. She was also a long-time art teacher in the Massachusetts public schools, a career she ended in 1901 when she was age forty-four to become a full-time artist.

    She attended public schools and at the age of twenty eight moved to Boston where she lived at the YWCA and studied at Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Boston Museum School with Edmund Tarbell, Philip Leslie Hale, and Frank W Benson. She established herself as a highly independent woman, becoming Director of Drawing for Brockton public schools and showing regularly at the Copley Society.

    In 1898, she began traveling West, sketch...

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