Mary Taylor Brush (January 11, 1866 – July 29, 1949) was an American aviator, artist, plane designer, and camouflage pioneer.

[1] Mary Taylor met George de Forest Brush while studying at Art Students League of New York, where he was her teacher.

[5][6] Brush was the main subject of her husband's art from the early 1890s until World War I, as he painted many 'Mother and Child' images of her with various of their children.

1888), and their friend Abbott H. Thayer designed camouflage methods and contributed to World War I plane masking efforts.

[4] Thayer and the Brushes applied principles of art to engineering in order to develop and propose designs for military camouflage.