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=Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown=

Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown (May 19, 1857-November 16,1944) was an American painter and etcher.

Biography
Bush-Brown was born in Philadelphia, PA, where studied at the Pennsylvania Academy, where she was influenced by Thomas Eakins (consentio p. 146)

She studied with Emile Carolus-Duran and Jean J. Henner, and at the Julian Academy under Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger. While in Paris, she befriended fellow artist Ellen Day Hale. At the Academy, Bush-Brown was one of the first women admitted to the life class. http://books.google.com/books?id=iscUAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA189&ots=gl-DJumt-7&dq=bush-brown%20pennsylvania%20academy&pg=PA189#v=onepage&q=bush-brown%20pennsylvania%20academy&f=false

She lived and worked in Philadelphia and New York, 1884-1910. In 1895 she married Henry Kirke Bush-Brown

From 1910 to 1941 she lived in Washington, DC. The Corcoran Gallery of Art held a retrospective exhibition of her work in 1911. She moved to Pennsylvania in 1941. She died November 16, 1944 in Ambler, Pa.

She struck a balance between

Bush-Brown papers: http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss339.html

http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?artist=101290

http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=689