Mary Gregg Byrne (born 1951 in Oberlin, Ohio)[citation needed] is an American portraitist, Illustrator, and landscape artist, who is best known for her watercolor paintings.
But she later changed her mind and attended University of Oregon, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking in 1975.
[2] After graduating from university, Byrne worked as a scrimshaw and advertising designer at Alaskan Silver & Ivory Company for a few years until 1980.
[citation needed] In 1997, Byrne received the Juror's Award for Painting at Tacoma Art Museum Northwest Biennial.
[1] In 2003, Byrne won a Benjamin Franklin Award for her illustrating work on the 2002 children book One Smile.