Mary Cable Butler
American (1865-1946)
Mary Cable Butler was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1865. She had extensive artistic training including studying with William Merritt Chase at the Shinnecock School and at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. She was a pupil of Henri and Redfield, as well as Courtois, Prine and Girardot while in Paris. Butler worked in both oils and watercolors to create stunning landscapes of mountains, rivers, lakes and dunes. She was a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, the Plastic Club, the Philadelphia Print Club, the Philadelphia Contemporary Club, the Philadelphia Artists Alliance, the American Federation of Arts, the American Artists Professional League, and the Fairmont Park Art Association.
Butler exhibited extensively throughout her career, winning prizes at many prestigious shows. She showed her work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art repeatedly between 1894 and 1946, winning a prize in 1925. She also displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Boston Art Club (1906-1908); the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. (1910, 1914); the Buffalo Society of Artists, winning prizes in both 1913 and 1914; the Plastic Club, where she won a medal in 1918 and a prize for watercolor in 1929; the National Art Exhibit in Springville, Utah, winning prizes in 1926 and 1927; and the National Association of Women Artists where she also won a prize. ButlerÃs work can be found in international museums, galleries, and private collections such as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Springfield, Missouri Art Museum, the Peoria, Illinois Art Museum, the Edmonton, Canada Art Museum, as well as at several colleges in the United States.