Margaret Mason Taylor Fox (26 July 1857 – 1942) was an American painter, illustrator, and etcher. Born in

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, Fox was a student of Peter Moran and

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. She taught for a time in the public schools of

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, and in 1905 was serving as treasurer of the Teachers' Art Club of New Haven. She is known best as a book illustrator, but she exhibited other work as well, presenting eight

etching Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other type ...

s at the Union League Club's exhibit "Work of Women Etchers in America" in 1888. Little else is recorded of her career, but she is known to have been in the

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area in 1895; references place her there again between 1926 and 1941. She died in 1942 in Thomaston, Connecticut. Seven etchings by Fox, including ''The Burns Cottage, Washington, D.C.'' are owned by the

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. Twelve etchings, including ''Near Darby Road'', ''Shark River, N.J.'', eight impressions of ''Berry Gatherers'' and two of ''Pasture Land'', are in the collection of the

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; all date to between 1884 and 1887. Her work is also in the collection of the

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, the

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, and the

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Art Museum,

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Fox - Collegiate Church of New York City.jpg, ''Collegiate Church of New York City'' Fox - Shark River, N. J.jpg, ''Shark River, N. J'' Fox - St. David’s Church Radnor, PA.jpg, ''St. David’s Church Radnor, PA''

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