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Wellesley, Massachusetts: Harvard University, 1931 20 x 24 inches, oil on canvas.
Mary Brewster Hazelton (November 23, 1868 – September 13, 1953) was an American portrait painter. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she was later an instructor.
Among her other achievements, Hazelton was the first woman to win an award open to both men and women in the United States when she won the Hallgarten Prize from the National Academy of Design in 1896.
Her portrait paintings are in the collections of the Massachusetts State House, Harvard University, Peabody Essex Museum, and Wellesley Historical Society.
Signed by Mary Hazelton on upper corner. Small area repaired and a slight puncture to canvas, else fine.