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ARTIST: Mary Elizabeth King (California, District Of Columbia, Missouri, 1899 - 1991) NAME: Seascape - Mt Desert Island (titled on verso) MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Some craquelure. Some scattered inpaintings mostly in the sky area. Minor damages to frame. SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 28 inches / 45 x 71 cm FRAME SIZE: 22 x 32 inches / 55 x 81 cm SIGNATURE: lower left CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 121312 US Shipping $90 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Born in Springfield, Missiouri on January 19, 1899. King studied at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Academie Julian in Paris, Chelsea Art School in London, and with Savini in Florence. By the late 1930s she was a resident of San Francisco. In 1947 she married James J. Loftus. She died in Washington, DC on January 15, 1991. Primarily a miniature painter, she also was a competent landscape painter.Exhibited: California Society of Miniature Painters, 1938; Society of Washington Artists.