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Nancy Maybin Ferguson

1872 – 1967

American artist

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Lived 1872 – 1967 (aged 94–95). Nancy Maybin Ferguson was an American painter and artist.

Nancy Maybin Ferguson (1872–1967), was an American painter whose career spanned decades. She is known for her plein-air paintings. She was a member of the Philadelphia Ten.

Biography Ferguson was born in 1872 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, studying under Elliot Daingerfield. She also attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where her instructors included Charles Hawthorne, William Merritt Chase, Arthur Carles and Hugh H. Breckenridge.

Ferguson exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ferguson divided her time between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Provincetown, Massachusetts, both of which were subjects of her landscapes over the course of her career.

She died in 1967.

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1872, Philadelphia
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Died
1967
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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American artist (1872–1967)

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Nancy Maybin Ferguson was born in 1872 in Philadelphia.

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Nancy Maybin Ferguson was a painter and artist.

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