[3] Her instructors there included Edmund Charles Tarbell, Philip Leslie Hale, and Frank Weston Benson.

She began signing her name as "M. Bradish Titcomb" in 1905 to avoid prejudice against her gender.

– the mother of actress Jane Russell – was shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and purchased by President Woodrow Wilson; another portrait, of Frank P. Sibley, was reproduced in the Boston Globe.

During this period her work was shown in a traveling exhibition with that of Cecilia Beaux, Lydia Field Emmet, Jean MacLane, and Lillian Genth, winning plaudits; she was also a member of "The Group", a collective of Boston women painters organized in 1916 by Lucy S. Conant which exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum and the Detroit Institute of Art between 1917 and 1919.

She also traveled throughout New England, and once to Nogales, Arizona, to visit her brother,[3] as well as to Mexico and California.