Mary Minifie was educated at Wellesley College and earned an
M.F.A. from Boston University School of Fine Arts. For the next
ten years she lived and worked abroad in Cairo, Egypt, Oxford,
England, and Vienna, Austria, exhibiting widely. In 1985 when
she returned to the U.S., she began her study of portrait and
the figure with portrait painter, Paul Ingbretson.
EDUCATION
B.A. - Wellesley College, 1973, studio art and art history
major
M.F.A. - Boston University School of Fine Arts, 1976, painting
major
Private Study with portrait painter Paul Ingbretson, a modern
master of the Boston School tradition, Boston, Massachusetts
1985-1997
Unveiling
of George Hecker portrait. |
AWARDS
2003 - Guild of Boston Artists, Edmund Tarbell Prize for
Painting for The White Vase
2001 - American Society of Portrait Artists, National Competition,
Honorable Mention, 4th Place for
Woman in Pink
1998 - The Washington Society of Portrait Artists, WSPA
National Competition, Honorable Mention for Portrait for Ben
1998 - First Prize for Painting for Woman
with Pearls, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Foundation
Show, National Arts Club, New York, New York
1999 - John Stobart Foundation Grant Recipient, followed
by one artist show at The Kensington - Stobart Gallery, Naples,
Florida - March, 2001
Faculty
for the Connecticut Society of Portraits Artists portrait
weekend on Feb.2-5, 2005; Mary Minifie on far left |
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PUBLISHED
February, 2005 - Feature article on portraits in American
Artist
2004 - Featured in International Artist's book "100
Ways to Paint Flowers and Gardens"
April, 2001 - "Portrait Painting" published in Artist's
Magazine; Page 45
MEMBERSHIPS
Guild of Boston Artists
The Copley Society
American Society of Portrait Artists
Portrait Society of America
COMMISSIONS
National Cathedral, Washington, DC - Icon Commission
Boston Ballet, Boston, Massachusetts - 30th Anniversary
Series Portrait of a Dancer
Many private portrait commissions
Many still life and flower commissions
References available upon request
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