Mary Loring Warner (1860-1950)
- Mary Loring Warner (1860-1950)
- Barn at Sunset
- Oil on canvas
- 14 x 20 inches
- Signed and dated 1887, lower left; Inscribed DeHaven verso
Mary Elizabeth Loring Warner was born in 1860 in Sheffield, Massachusetts[1] to Pamelia (Reasoner) and Almon R. Loring.[2] An educated young woman, Warner graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in 1882. In 1891 she married Charles W. Warner of Middletown, Connecticut. A secretary-treasurer for the William H. Chapman Company, Warner also served as a representative in Connecticut’s General Assembly. Their son, Winthrop Loring Warner, was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a prominent naval architect.[3]