| Mary B. Williams | ||
| Birth Date: December 13, 1873 |
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| Death Date: June 21, 1943 Artist Gallery |
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| “Miss Mary Williams with her box of paints and palette was a well-known figure during the latter part of the 19th century. One usually saw her en route to sketch landscapes or keep an appointment for a portrait she was painting. To her friends she was known as “Mayme” and resided at 810 Cleveland Ave, NW, where the new Mercy Hospital nurses home is now being erected. Each summer Miss Williams would spend several weeks at Zoar and, with other artists, paint the rural landscapes or the quaint houses for which Zoar is famous.”
From: Canton Repository, August, 1941.
Born in Massillon, Ohio on Dec. 13, 1873, Mary Belle Williams began art studies as a child and continued at the Art Students League in NYC. She moved from Canton, Ohio to San Diego around 1906 where her brother owned a gold mine in nearby Julian.
In San Diego she maintained a studio in a building she owned at Seventh and Beech streets where Alfred R. Mitchell also lived and worked. Her last six months were spent in a hospital in Los Angeles where she died on June 21, 1943.
Mary Williams’s “Portrait of Frank E. Case” was completed in 1925 and is the only known portrait of Frank Case. Case was the founder of the Harvard Dental Chair Company, founder and first president of the Dime Savings Bank and president of Aultman Hospital board. He owned the Case Mansion which was located on Market Ave. North, in Canton, Ohio and built between 1900 and 1901. The Case Mansion was home to the Canton Art Institute for a number of years.
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