The Writer

c. 1912

Mary Bradish Titcomb

Artist, American, 1858 - 1927

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West Building Main Floor, Gallery 70

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist [1858-1927]; by descent to the children of the artist’s brother, Edward Titcomb [1863-1956], Nogales, Arizona; (c. 1998 with Covington Fine Arts Gallery, Tucson); (by January 1998 with Vose Gallery, Boston); acquired June 1998 by private collection, Durham, NH; (benefit auction, University of New Hampshire Museum of Art, Durham, NH, July 2010); private collection, Durham, NH; purchased 2023 by NGA.

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Exhibition History

1912

  • 25th Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, 1912, no. 266.

1914

  • 109th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 2014, no. 213.

1915

  • Tenth Annual Art Exhibition of the Woman's Club of Brockton, Brockton Public Library, Brockton, MA, 1915, no. 29

1916

  • (Solo exhibition), Wheeler Memorial Library, Orange, MA, 1916.

1919

  • Exhibition of Paintings by Marion Powers Kirkpatrick and Mary B. Titcomb, Brockton Public Library, Brockton, MA 1919.

1998

  • Mary Bradish Titcomb and Her Contemporaries, Vose Galleries, Boston, 1998, no. 1, repro.

2013

  • Pictures by M. Bradish Titcomb, Copley Gallery, Boston, 1913, no. 6

Inscriptions

lower right: signed

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