Mary Jett Franklin

One of Franklin's early paintings, The Page, sold for $600 at the National Academy 56th annual exhibition in New York City in April 1881.

The Atlanta Constitution wrote: Georgians will be proud to know that among this number [of artists exhibiting] is a Georgia lady.

In 1871 she was contracted to create a plaster bust of the late Episcopal Bishop Stephen Elliott, which was pronounced to be very lifelike.

[6] Some of her engravings of life in the South were published in Cotton and Its Kingdom by Henry Woodfin Grady and in the October 1881 issue of Harper's Monthly.

Some of her other works may be in private collections around Georgia, the U.S.A., and France, but many of them were probably sold in Europe and their location in the 21st century is unknown.

She frequently taught art classes for the students at Lucy Cobb Institute as well as the University of Georgia.

Photo of Miss Mary Jett Franklin, ca. 1921, taken at Moss Side, Athens, Georgia, by Sarah Hunter Moss
Mary Franklin, Tunis
Signature of Mary Jett Franklin from La Nomade
A young Tunisian woman in a red garment carries water in a jug to her home. Painted about 1913 by Mary Jett Franklin, who gave this painting to the Women's Building, University of Georgia, in 1923.
A young woman in a red garment is leading her goats back home. Painted by Mary Jett Franklin at Carthage, North Africa, about 1913, it was given by her to the Women's Building, University of Georgia, in 1921. Now in the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia.