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Mary Augusta Mullikin was born in 1874 in Ohio and began studying art at the Cincinnati Art Academy before going to Paris to take classes at the Académie Carmen with James Whistler (1834-1903), a famous painter but poor teacher, which probably led Mary Mullikin to decide to complete her training in London with the illustrator Walter Crane (1845-1915). Back in the United States, she pursued a career as an art teacher for twenty years at Lasell College near Boston. In 1920, she visited her sister Katherine in China, who was married there to a wealthy American businessman from Tianjin. Her vacation would turn into a long stay of more than 25 years! Freed from all financial worries, she now devoted herself to painting.
Gouache on paper representing a place in the Forbidden City of Beijing excellent condition
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