Margaret Mason Taylor Fox (26 July 1857 – 1942) was an American painter, illustrator, and etcher. Born in Philadelphia, Fox was a student of

Peter Moran Peter Antony Moran (born 13 April 1935) is the former Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Aberdeen, Scotland. Early life Moran was born in Glasgow. After early schooling in Lanarkshire and East Dunbartonshire, he spent nine years in ...

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Thomas Pollock Anshutz Thomas Pollock Anshutz (October 5, 1851 – June 16, 1912) was an American painter and teacher. Known for his portraiture and genre scenes, Anshutz was a co-founder of The Darby School. One of Thomas Eakins's most prominent students, he succeede ...

. She taught for a time in the public schools of New Haven, Connecticut, and in 1905 was serving as treasurer of the Teachers' Art Club of New Haven. She is known best as a book illustrator, but she exhibited other work as well, presenting eight etchings at the Union League Club's exhibit "Work of Women Etchers in America" in 1888. Little else is recorded of her career, but she is known to have been in the Washington, D.C. area in 1895; references place her there again between 1926 and 1941. She died in 1942 in Thomaston, Connecticut. Seven etchings by Fox, including ''The Burns Cottage, Washington, D.C.'' are owned by the

National Museum of American History The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and military history. Among the items on display is t ...

. Twelve etchings, including ''Near Darby Road'', ''Shark River, N.J.'', eight impressions of ''Berry Gatherers'' and two of ''Pasture Land'', are in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; all date to between 1884 and 1887. Her work is also in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the

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Fox - Collegiate Church of New York City.jpg, ''Collegiate Church of New York City'' Fox - Shark River, N. J.jpg, ''Shark River, N. J'' Fox - St. David’s Church Radnor, PA.jpg, ''St. David’s Church Radnor, PA''

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