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Shoreline, Sunny Day
oil on board, 12" x 16", signed lower right

Boston School artist Mary Brewster Hazelton was born in Milton, MA and grew up in Wellesley. She studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School with Edmund Tarbell, and became teaching assistant to Frank Benson and to Philip Hale. In 1899 she was the first recipient of the school's Paige Traveling Fellowship, enabling her studies in Europe. In 1896 she was the first woman to win the Hallgarten Prize from the National Academy. Hazelton kept a studio at the Fenway Studios in Boston. She was a member of the Guild of Boston Artists, the Copley Society, the Concord AA, the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, and a founding member of the Wellesley Society of Artists. She also exhibited fifteen times at the PAFA, the Pan-Anerican Expo, and the Pan-Pacific Expo.

Mary Brewster Hazelton (1868 - 1953