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Mary Lillian Fenn

Mary Lillian Fenn (1867 - 1950) was active/lived in California, New Jersey.  Mary Fenn is known for Bright color impressionist landscape painting, furniture design.

This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV.

MARY LILLIAN FENN (March 1, 1867 – September 14, 1950)
A.K.A. “Mary L. Fenn”

Landscape painter in oil and watercolor, pastellist. Born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, the daughter of Mary A. Thompson (b. 1842) and Henry “Harry” Fenn (1837 – 1911). Her father, Harry, was one of the most famous American illustrators and printmakers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a child she was raised in Montclair, New Jersey.

Fenn almost certainly received her initial art instruction from her famous father and then likely studied in one of the art schools associated with the greater New York City region. By 1900 she was already listed in the census as an “artist,” as was her brother, Walter (1862 – 1961), both of whom were still residing at that time with their parents in Montclair.

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