Mary Theresa Hart

• Name — Mary Theresa Hart • Born — 7 January 1872 • Birthplace — Brooklyn, New York • Died — 25 February 1942 • Place of death — Brooklyn, New York • Education — National Academy of Design • Field — Painting • Illustration — Mary Theresa Hart's circa-1900 portrait of her father James McDougal Hart

Hart was born in 1872 in New York, the third child and second daughter of James McDougal Hart and the artist Mary Theresa Gorsuch Hart (d. 1921), who was best known for Easter Morning, a widely reproduced image of a white marble cross draped in flowers. James M. Hart's siblings included the artists William Hart and Julie Hart Beers. Mary Theresa Hart's sister, Letitia Bonnet Hart (1867-1953), was also a painter. (Their brother Robert Gorsuch Hart, a water-plant engineer, died while working in Mexico in 1906, at age 37.) The family lived at 94 First Place in Brooklyn and had a country home in Lakeville, Connecticut. Mary Theresa Hart studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and with Will Hicok Low and Edgar Melville Ward. The two sisters and their father commuted daily from Brooklyn to adjoining top-floor studios at 11 East 14th Street in Manhattan. Mary Theresa Hart often sat for portraits by her sister, offering an "intelligent grasp of the poses," and the two women occasionally collaborated on canvases. A poem about the artist trio ended in the refrain, "don’t you wish that you were smart, Like James, Letitia and Mary Hart?" Mary Theresa Hart died in 1942 at the family's Brooklyn row house. She is buried with her family in Green-Wood Cemetery.

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The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1872 at Brooklyn. It is also recorded that mary Theresa Hart died in 1942 at Brooklyn.

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