Mary Clare Sherwood was born in Lyons, New York and Died in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She was a painter that mostly worked in the medium of oil or watercolor. She mainly painted landscapes of the regions were she was living.

Ms. Sherwood studied in New York at the Art Students League with Julian Alden Weir, William Merritt Chase and at Woodstock, New York with Kenyon Cox. Her studies took her to Europe to study with Conrad Fehr and Curt Hermann in Berlin and F. Edwin Scott in Paris.

EXHIBITED:
Louvre, Paris
Southern States Art League
Mississippi Art Association
Women's Federation of Clubs, Mississippi, 1933
National Association of Painters and Sculptors

LISTED:
American Art Annuals, v. 5-10 and 30
Who was Who in American Art, v. 1- 3
Dictionary of Women Artists, by Chris Petteys