Maryland artist Mary Pfister has won national awards for her portraiture and still life painting. In 1992 she was invited to introduce her work at the New York Portrait Forum at Carnegie Hall, New York City.
In December 1989, August 2000 and again in August 2002, her work was selected as finalist in national competitions of greater than 14,000 entries and appeared in The Artist magazine in an article entitled "Introducing America's Award Winning Portrait Painters". Her work appeared in American Artist magazine October 2000 in the prestigious national competition "Realism Today" co-sponsored and exhibited at the John Pence Gallery, San Francisco.
Mary is a charter member and former Maryland Ambassador for the Portrait Society of America, and a certified member of the Maryland Society of Portrait Painters. She is a member of the Oil Painters of America and the Frederick County Art Association. She has attended Master classes at the Art Student's League and at private master classes throughout the country with such renowned artists as Daniel Greene, John Howard Sanden, Nelson Shanks and Robert Bateman.
An article about Mary, her painting, portraits and teaching career was featured in the March 2005 issue of Frederick magazine. Mary has taught classes in oil painting and portraiture at her instruction studio in Frederick, Maryland since 1992. She paints commissioned portraits full time.
Top 50 Finalist 2002
The Artist's Magazine Competition, Wildlife Category, Ross Merrill, Juror (p.45)
Finalist
The Artist's Magazine Portrait Competition
December 1989
Everett Raymond Kinstler, Juror
