Mary Amelia Kirkup, American, 1858 to 1940, oil painting on canvas depicting a Parisienne city scape in the manner of Impressionism. Signed lower right. Framed. Mary Amelia Kirkup is an American artist, known for Landscape and marine painting, newspaper writer.Miss Kirkup has lived and studied in such art centers as Boston, New York, Paris, Holland and England. During her stay abroad she found the study of the people about her as interesting as the study of art. Her first literary work appeared in the Midland Monthly, for which she wrote illustrated articles and poems. One of a kind artwork.