1. Mary Foote was an American painter and producer of notes of Carl Jung's seminars.
21 Facts About Mary Foote
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Mary Foote returned to the United States in the 1950s and spent her later years in Connecticut, where she died.
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Mary Foote was the daughter of Charles Spencer Foote and Hannah Hubbard Foote.
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Mary Foote was born in Guilford, Connecticut, as was her younger sister, Margaret Foote Hawley, who became an artist and painted a profile portrait of a girl named Mary Foote.
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Mary Foote's cousin was Lilly Gillette Foote, who was governess to Mark Twain's children.
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Mary Foote was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the great-great-granddaughter of General Andrew Ward and Diana Hubbard Ward.
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Mary Foote travelled to Paris, France and studied with John Singer Sargent.
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Mary Foote was a student of Frederick MacMonnies at the Academie Carmen in Paris and at Giverny; the gardens there became the subject of many of her paintings.
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Mary Foote's friends included art patron Mabel Dodge, dancer Isadora Duncan, author Henry James, writer Gertrude Stein, James McNeill Whistler, Ellen Emmet Rand, and Cecilia Beaux.
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Mary Foote painted a wide range of subjects including portraits, figures, florals, and landscapes.
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Mary Foote's work was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, along with the works of Robert Henri, Cecilia Beaux, Edmund Tarbell and other noted artists.
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Mary Foote sent some fine canvases, of which the most striking, perhaps, was that of Mrs John Carpenter-an exceedingly skilful management of a blue hat and a red coat, with well considered "repeat" accents in the book and cup and saucer upon the table.
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Mary Foote lived and worked in Peking, China from December 1926 into early 1927.
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Mary Foote went into a deep depression after it ended.
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Mary Foote sought treatment from Smith Ely Jelliffe, and in 1927, closed down her studio.
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Mary Foote advised Foote, who has been described as neurotic, to seek the treatment of Jung in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Mary Foote's secretary and assistant from the 1930s until the seminar series ended with the start of World War II was an Englishwoman, Mrs Emily Koppel, who was married to a man from Switzerland.
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Mary Foote was among the social circle of Mabel Dodge Luhan and visited her at her Villa Curonia.
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Almost everyone was in love or hate and only Mary Foote could come cutting through the snarled air like a cool smooth silver fruit-knife, severing at the crucial moments the crossed threads that were in danger of becoming firmly knotted entanglements.
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Mary Foote is very frail, and I'm afraid not very well.
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Mary Foote died among friends on January 28,1968, and is buried in the Foote-Ward Cemetery in Guilford, Connecticut.