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Mary Hood

Mary G. Lawson Hood (1886 - 1967) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Mary Hood is known for Modernist still life, florals and landscape paintings.

Mary G. L. Hood (1886-1967), a Philadelphia native, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, but would ultimately reject her traditional academic training in favor of an avant-garde art. She balanced her artistic aspirations with a traditional family life and later thrived in the artist's community of New Hope, Pennsylvania, where she created modernist still life, floral and landscape works.

Hood first attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1903-4. Notable classmates at the Academy were Daniel Garber and Arthur B. Carles. Her teachers included William Merritt Chase, Thomas Anshutz, Henry Breckenridge, Cecilia Beaux and Henry McCarter. Hood left the Academy after two semesters, and despite her determination to be an artist, left painting behind for many years to marry and raise four children. She reenrolled in 1929, but soon found its traditional academic model too confining. Hood quit her formal studies and instead took private lessons with Academy i   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3172 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Mary Hood

   Mary Hood  Born:  1886 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died:   1967
Known for:  Modernist still life, florals and landscape paintings

Mary G. L. Hood (1886-1967), a Philadelphia native, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, but would ultimately reject her traditional academic training in favor of an avant-garde art. She balanced her artistic aspirations with a traditional family life and later thrived in the artist's community of New Hope, Pennsylvania, where she created modernist still life, floral and landscape works.

Hood first attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1903-4. Notable classmates at the Academy were Daniel Garber and Arthur B. Carles. Her teachers included William Merritt Chase, Thomas Anshutz, Henry Breckenridge, Cecilia Beaux and Henry McCarter. Hood left the Academy after two semesters, and despite her determinatio  ...  Displaying 750 of 3172 characters.

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