Mary Roberts Ebert

American (1873-1956)

Born in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1873, Mary Roberts Ebert studied at the Art Students League of New York and later under Childe Hassam and John Twachtman. While studying in Cos Cob, Connecticut, Ebert met her future husband and noted artist, Charles Ebert. The couple became regular summer residents on Monhegan Island, Maine, beginning in 1909. They moved to Old Lyme, Connecticut, in 1919, where they became prominent members of the art colony there.

Ebert was a member of the American Watercolor Society, Greenwich Art Association, Lyme Art Association and Sarasota Art Association. Her works are held in the permanent collection of the Florence Griswold Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum and in the Louise and Alan Sellars Collection.