Marie Danforth Page

Marie Danforth Page was born and raised in Boston. She studied under Helen Knowlton privately from 1886-1889 and with Edmund C. Tarbell and Frank W. Benson at Boston Museum School from 1890-1896. She was known as Marie Danforth until she married in 1896. It was also in that year she first painted in Europe.

Known as a “Tarbellite” because her work emulates the finest teachings of Tarbell, she became an Associate of the National Academy in 1927 and member of the Guild of Boston Artists and exhibited extensively at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Guild of Boston Artists, the Corcoran Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design and elsewhere. 

Page was primarily known for her portraits of genres of children and/or mothers and children and her work was awarded prestigious medals at the National Academy of Design (1916, 1923, 1928), Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco (1915), Newport Art Association (1921), Duxbury Art Association (MA, 1920), Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia (1926), Grand Central Galleries (NY, 1928), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (two awards 1916); and the Springfield Art Association. Her first solo exhibition was in 1921 at the Guild of Boston Artists.

Page’s paintings are in the permanent collections of the George Walter Smith Museum in Springfield, MA; Mt. Holyoke College; Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA; Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (Boston); Brooklyn N.Y. Medical Society; University of Wisconsin; Museum and Art Gallery, Reading, PA; Erie, PA Museum of Art; Springfield, Illinois AA; Monclair Art Museum (NJ).

Marie Danforth Page is highly regarded as a portrait and genre painter. She is listed in all the major American Art reference books including Who Was Who in American Art; 300 Years of American Art, p. 626; Tufts, American Women Artists, 1830-1930; Falk, Exhibition Record Series; Pierce, Edmund C. Tarbell & the Boston School of Painting, p. 167; Who’s Who in American, vol. 18, 1934/1935, p. 1829 and many more. 

Page was married to Dr. Calvin G. Page on June 10, 1896 and had two daughters.  She died on March 4, 1940 a renown portrait painter.