A native of
Windham,
New Hampshire, upon graduation from high school Titcomb studied at the
Massachusetts Normal Art School In the 1890s she went to Paris to study with
Jules Joseph Lefebvre and to travel. She then returned to Boston, taking studio space at the Harcourt Studios, where all three of her teachers kept space. In 1895 she became a member of the
Copley Society and began exhibiting locally; from 1904 to 1927 she showed work in 29 exhibits at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She began signing her name as "M. Bradish Titcomb" in 1905 to avoid prejudice against her gender. and the
Grundmann Building, but expanded to spaces in
Provincetown and
Marblehead as well. She also traveled throughout
New England, and once to
Nogales,
Arizona, to visit her brother, She showed work at the
Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 and the Third, Fifth, and Ninth Biennials at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and received honorable mention from the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts in 1917 in
Hartford. Titcomb's painting
Summer Girls, from 1912–1913, was included in the inaugural exhibition of the
National Museum of Women in the Arts,
American Women Artists 1830–1930, in 1987. ==External links==