Mary Foote (1872 - 1968)

Born 25 Nov 1872 in Guilford New Haven Connecticut United States

Ancestors

Died 1968 at about age 95 in Connecticut United States

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Biography

Mary was born in 1872. She was the daughter of Christopher Foote. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ * "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 09 May 2016, 17:54), entry for Mary Foote(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:M2RR-4N6);

Mary Foote (1872-1968) was an American Painter and producer of notes of Carl Jung's seminars. As an artist, she lived and in New York's Washington Square, Paris and Peking. From 1928 to the 1950's she lived in Zurich and created and published notes of Carl Jung's seminars until World War II. She returned the United States in the 1950's and spent her later years in Connecticut where is died.

Early Life

Mary Foote was the daughter of Christopher Spencer Foote (1837-1880) and Hannah Hubbard ( 1840-1885). She was born in Guilford Connecticut, as was her younger sister Margaret Foote Hawley, who also became an artist and painted a profile of a girl named Mary Foote.

After the girls were orphaned, Margaret was raised by her aunt, Harriet Foote Hawley and her husband in Washington D.C.

Mary was taken in by an aunt who lived in Hartford Connecticut after she became an orphan at the age of 13.Her cousin Lilly Gillette Foote, who was governess to Mark Twain's children. For a period of time Mary Foote lived in the Mark Twain(Samuel L. Clemens) household and was friends with Susy Clemens.

Mary Foote was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the great-granddaughter of General Andrew Ward (1727-1799) and Dinah Hubbard Ward, who was born and died Guilford, Connecticut.was commented for his bravery by George Washington. Foote's grandparents were George Augustus Foote and Elizabeth "Eliza" Spencer and her great-grandparents were Eli and Diana Ward.

Career

Art: beginning in 1890 she studied art at Yale School of Art.

In 1894 the Alice Kimball English Prize which was established to support summer travel was awarded to Foote.

The William Wirt Winchester Prize, which funded two years of study in Europe, was awarded to Foote in 1897. It was considered the "largest prize of its time" in the United States at that time.

Foote travelled to Paris France and studied with John Singer Sargent.

She was a student of Frederick MacMonnies in Paris and Giverny: the gardens there became the subject of many of her painting.

She also made a prtrait of MacMonnies.

Her friends included art patron *Mabel Dodge: * dancer Isadora Duncan:

• author Henry James: * writer Gertrude Stein: * James McNeil Whistler: *Ellen Emmet Rand and *Cecilia Beaux.

In 1901 she returned to New York City to set up a studio on Washington Square where she earned a comfortable living from her portrait commissions, Her list of clients reds a Who's Whi of the art scene of her day. Foote painted a wide range of subjects including portriats, figures, floral, and landscapes.

She died among friends on January 28, 1968 and is buried in the Foote-Ward Cemetery in Guilford Cemetery Connecticut United States.

Her work was exhibited at the Pennsylivania Academy of Find Arts.

Source

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Foote#cite_note-FAG-2