In 1879, she enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she studied with painter Otto Grundmann and became a friend of fellow student Frank Weston Benson.

[2][5] After four years, Loud left the school and returned to France for further training, spending 1883–84 at the Académie Julien in Paris, studying with under Tony Robert-Fleury and others.

On her return to the United States, she continued her training at the Cowles Art School in Boston.

[5] Beginning in the late 1880s, she exhibited regularly for a quarter century, showing at the Paris Salon, the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.,[6] the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, and other venues.

[7][8] The Boston Museum of Fine Arts held a memorial exhibition of her work in late 1916.