Mary Taylor Bryan

In 1991, the 2,000-square-foot (190 m) gallery doubled in size to accommodate the ongoing influx of artists and patrons who came to Jeffersonville for artistic purposes. Ultimately, the gallery's schedule expanded to 10 months of the year, offering a series of juried and invitational exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations, artist roundtables and lectures.

Bryan and her husband, artist Alden Bryan, operated the Bryan Gallery on Rocky Neck in Gloucester for over 30 years in the summers. Following her death, the Mary Bryan Memorial Gallery was founded on Main Street (Vermont Route 108) in the Jeffersonville Historic District in 1984, in her memory. Bryan is the only woman artist historically associated with the area.

Mary Bryan died on September 22, 1978, in Chatham, Massachusetts, from cancer. Subsequently, Alden Bryan designed and built Mary Bryan Memorial Gallery, a non-profit exhibit space to exhibit works by artists who traveled to Jeffersonville.

Mary Bryan was a signature member from 1954 to 1978 of the American Watercolor Society. She won three awards at the National Association of Women Artists, two prizes at the Silvermine Guild, three first prizes at the North Shore Art Association and two prizes at the Allied Artists of America, including the Gold Medal of Honor for Best in Show. She was a member of the Guild of Boston Artists and the Copley Society, both in Boston, as well as the Northern Vermont Artists Association. During her lifetime, her work was represented by Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City.

In 1939, the Bryans attended a winter plein air painting workshop led by Charles Curtis Allen at Jeffersonville, Vermont, an excursion organized by the Rockport Art Association. In 1941, they purchased a home and dairy farm in the area, which became their primary residence for the rest of their lives.

Bryan studied with several sculptors including Laura Gardin Fraser, designer of many US coins. After her marriage to Alden Bryan in 1936, she moved to Gloucester, Massachusetts, where the couple spent their summers, and where Mary's career as a painter began. She studied with the artist Emile Gruppe and attended classes with Eliot O'Hara at his School for Watercolor in Goose Rocks Beach, Kennebunkport, Maine.

Mary Lewis Taylor Bryan (January 15, 1907 - September 22, 1978) was an American artist, known for her watercolor paintings. She was a prolific artist in watercolor and several other media and divided her time between Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Jeffersonville, Vermont.