Mary Rogers Gregory

Gregory was one of the most distinguished artists of the South. She painted many portraits of prominent men and women. Among her best-known works were portraits of Benjamin Harvey Hill, Judge James M. Jackson, Henry W. Grady, and Mary Edwards Bryan. The legislature of Georgia appointed her to paint the full-length portraits of Alexander H. Stephens and Herschel Vespasian Johnson. These pictures were placed on the walls of the capitol in Atlanta. She also painted a life-size portrait of Hugh McCall, the first historian of Georgia. Gregory had several pictures in the art department of the Cotton States and International Exposition in the Art Building and in the Woman's Building.^[2] She held a life membership in the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where she studied for several years. She also worked in Cooper Institute and trained under European artists.^[1]

She died in 1919.^[3]

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: W. G. Cooper's The Cotton States and International Exposition and South, Illustrated: Including the Official History of the Exposition (1896)
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: F. E. Willard & M. A. R. Livermore's American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits : a Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century (1897)

• Cooper, Walter Gerald (1896). The Cotton States and International Exposition and South, Illustrated: Including the Official History of the Exposition (Public domain ed.). Illustrator Company. p. 229.
• Pollack, Deborah C. (18 January 2015). Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-433-5.
• Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1897). American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits : a Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century (Public domain ed.). Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick. p. 340.

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