Maude Drein Bryant (1880-1946), was an American painter. She was a member of the

Philadelphia Ten The Philadelphia Ten, also known as The Ten, was a group of American female artists who exhibited together from 1917 to 1945. The group, eventually numbering 30 painters and sculptors, exhibited annually in Philadelphia and later had traveling exh ...

Biography

Bryant was born Maude Drein on May 11, 1880 in

Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington ( Lenape: ''Paxahakink /'' ''Pakehakink)'' is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina ...

. She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, studying under Thomas Anschutz,

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and

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. In 1914 she won the John Lambert Fund Purchase prize for emerging artists from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for her painting ''Calendulas and Asters''. She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the

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, and the

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. In 1923 Bryant exhibited with the Philadelphia Ten. Bryant was tangentially associated with the New Hope artists colony in New Hope, Pennsylvania because of the proximity of her studio in Perkiomen Creek in Hendricks, Pennsylvania, and her ''plein-air'' style. She moved away from Hendicks to Wilmington in the last years of her life. Her husband died in 1945 at the age of 80 and Bryant died in Wilmington in 1946. Calendulas and Asters

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