Mary
Ellen Sigsbee,
the daughter of Charles D. Sigsbee, the commander
of the
USS Maine,
was born in New Orleans in 1876. She studied at the Arts
Students League in
Washington and New York. In 1908 Mary eloped to France with fellow
artist, Balfour
Ker.
The marriage was not successful and in 1911 Mary returned to New York.
A socialist and supporter of women's
suffrage, her work appeared in The
Masses, Woman's Journal
and the New
York Evening Journal.
She also designed posters for the American Woman Suffrage Association.
Mary later married another artist, Anton
Otto Fischer.
Mary
Ellen Sigsbee died
in 1960.
Mary Ellen Sigsbee,
Women's Journal (May, 1913)
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