Quick Facts
Biography
Mary Fraser Wesselhoeft (February 15, 1873 – March 23, 1971) was an American graphic artist, watercolorist, and stained-glass artist.
She graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, studying under Denman Ross and Charles Herbert Woodbury in Boston. Wesselhoeft also later studied under Hugo von Habermann in Munich.
Wesselhoeft worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New York City, and Santa Barbara, California. In 1900, she taught drawing at Miss Webster's Private School in Cambridge. By 1922, she had moved to New York where she set up a studio on Sixth Avenue and Eleventh Street.
As an American artist of the west, she is noted for her landscapes of Santa Barbara and of New Mexico, and portraits of Native Americans. Wesselhoeft created her glass works using both painted and unpainted glass.
Exhibitions
New York Architectural League, 1922
Chicago Art Institute, (date unknown)
Whitney Studio Club, (date unknown). Exhibition of Water Colors - Thomas H. Donnelly, Richard Lahey, Richard Marwede, Mary F. Wesselhoeft & Designs for Stained Glass by Miss Wesselhoeft. November 28 - December 14.
Independent Show (date unknown). "The Flight Into Egypt." Glass
Notable Works
Stained glass window in the nave of the Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kansas City, Missouri, designed in 1912.
Madam W., drypoint, 1908. Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection.[1]