8 facts about Mary Hiester Reid

Mary Augusta Hiester Reid (1854–1921) was an American-born Canadian painter and teacher. She was best known as a painter of floral nevertheless lifes, and by 1890 she was thought to be the most important flower painter in Canada. She with painted domesticated landscapes, night scenes, and, less frequently, studio interiors and figure studies. Her feint as a painter is combined in a broad sense to Tonalism and Aestheticism or “art for art’s sake”.

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She was made a zealot of the Ontario Society of Artists in 1887, and in 1907 became forlorn the second woman to serve on its running committee. She was in addition to one of the first women to be elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) in 1893. She was elected to associate the Canadian Society of Applied Art in 1904.

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