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Mary Shepard Greene Blumenschein (1869–1958) was an
From 1906 to 1946 she exhibited her paintings at the
American
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artist, illustrator and jewelry designer.
Biography
Mary Shepard Greene was born inNew York City
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, the second child of Rufus, a wealthy businessman from Providence
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, and Mary Isabel Shepard Greene. She studied at the Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn and then at the Pratt Institute
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.
Career
When she was only 17 years of age, she left for Paris in 1886 where she worked withRaphaël Collin
Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin (17 June 1850 – 21 October 1916) was a French painter born and raised in Paris, where he became a prominent academic painter and a teacher. He is principally known for the links he created between French and Japa ...
, an artist best known for establishing links with well-known artists working in Japan.
upleft, ''Un Regard Fugitif''
From 1906 to 1946 she exhibited her paintings at the National Academy of Design
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fin ...
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In Paris in 1905, she met and married Ernest L. Blumenschein
Ernest Leonard Blumenschein (May 26, 1874 – June 6, 1960) was an American artist and founding member of the Taos Society of Artists. He is noted for paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico and the American Southwest.
Early life and educat ...
, also an artist. They moved back to New York in 1909 for the birth of their daughter, Helen
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. While there, they taught at Pratt and did work for various magazines such as McClure’s, American and Century.
Her husband discovered Taos, New Mexico
Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently occupied until its formal establishment in 1795 by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Cha ...
after an accident stranded him there in 1898. While he made annual summer trips there Mary stayed in New York. She made her first trip to Taos in 1913.
After the sale of a house she had inherited made them financially independent, the Blumenscheins moved to Taos in 1919, eventually becoming part of the Taos Society of Artists The Taos Society of Artists was an organization of visual arts founded in Taos, New Mexico. Established in 1915, it was disbanded in 1927. The Society was essentially a commercial cooperative, as opposed to a stylistic collective, and its foundation ...
. Mary's painting ''Acoma Legend'' was included in the "American Art Today" exhibition at the 1939 New York World's Fair
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In the 1920s Mary returned to the Pratt Institute to study jewelry making. Her jewelry was exhibited in 1956 at the Museum of International Folk Art
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History
The museum was founded by Floren ...
. Her paintings are part of the collection of the Brooklyn Museum
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. Shepard Greene was included in the 2018 exhibit ''Women in Paris 1850-1900''.
Honors
In 1900 she won third place at theParis salon
The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...
and only as second American woman a Gold medal at the Salon in 1902. In 1904 she received a silver medal in St. Louis at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. In 1915 she received the Julia A. Shaw Memorial Award from the National Academy of Design.
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Greene, Mary Shepard 1869 births 1958 deaths American women artists Artists from New York City Artists from Taos, New Mexico Pratt Institute alumni Pratt Institute faculty Taos Society of Artists American jewelry designers National Academy of Design associates American women academics Women jewellers