Marion G. Meteyard

Thomas Buford Meteyard was born in Rock Island, Illinois, but following his father’s early death in 1868, the future artist’s widowed mother, Marion Lunt Meteyard moved with him to Chicago. Marion was herself an educator, poet, musician, and historian, and as her son matured, she introduced him to Chicago’s cultural life: lectures, concerts, exhibitions, and theatrical performances. When Tom was sixteen, he and his mother moved to native Massachusetts where, in Boston, Cambridge, and particularly at Scituate, she had relatives, some of whom were also writers and poets. Tom studied for a brief time at Harvard and, while there and later, met a number of emerging artists and poets, some of whom, notably the poets Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, became life-long friends.

http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/exhibitions/current-exhibition I.S. 12/28/2017