Early 20th Century "The First Church of Christ Scientist" Boston Landscape Painting by Henrietta Dunn Mears, Framed

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Early 20th Century oil painting of The First Church of Christ Scientist Boston, Massachusetts by Henrietta Dunn Mears (American,1877-1970), 1917. … Read more Early 20th Century oil painting of The First Church of Christ Scientist Boston, Massachusetts by Henrietta Dunn Mears (American,1877-1970), 1917. Presented in a giltwood frame. Signed "Henrietta Dunn Mears" bottom right. Image, 10"H x 8"L.

Member of bi-coastal art associations, Provincetown Art Association, West Coast Arts, and Berkeley League of Fine Arts. Prizes for work exhibited at: Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul Institute in 1930, and in 1917, solo exhibition at Copley Gallery, Boston.

Henrietta Dunn Mears was born in Milwaukee, WI on Feb. 28, 1877. Henrietta Dunn studied at the Art Students League in NYC and in Massachusetts with Hawthorne and Pape.

The wife of Wm Mears, she moved to St Paul, MN in 1930 and, shortly thereafter, appears to have abandoned her art career. Upon moving to California in 1945, she lived there until her death in Sunland on May 15, 1970.

Member: West Coast Arts; Provincetown AA.

Exh: Copley Gallery (Boston), 1917 (solo); Berkeley (CA) League of FA, 1924; Minn. State Fair, 1927 (1st prize); St Paul Inst., 1930 (award).

Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
American Art Annual 1933; Women Artists of the American West See less