May Hallowell Loud

Maria "May" Mott Hallowell Loud (August 22, 1860 – February 1, 1916) was an American artist, suffragist, and member of the Hallowell family. Family and personal life Maria Mott Hallowell, known as "May", was born in 1860 in Medford, Massachusetts, to Richard Price Hallowell and Anna Coffin (Davis) Hallowell. Two of her uncles fought in the Civil War, Edward Needles Hallowell and Norwood Penrose Hallowell, and her great-grandmother was the abolitionist and suffragist Lucretia Mott. May married architect Joseph Prince Loud in 1901. Art education Loud received some early art training from her mother, who was an amateur artist. In 1871, they went to Paris together to study art for a few months. In 1879, she enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she studied with painter Otto Grundmann and became a friend of fellow student Frank Weston Benson. Together, she, Benson, and Robert Reid edited the school's publication, The Art Student.