Gallery at Somes Sound | Mary Louise Pierson

Gallery at Somes Sound | Mary Louise Pierson


Mary Louise Pierson is an artist, photographer and lecturer with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work is shown and collected around the country and her photographic books include The Rockefeller Family Home, Kykuit and Mr. Rockefellerʼs Roads: The Untold Story of Acadia's Carriage Roads and Their Creator.

Mary Louise lectures frequently about Kykuit; her grandfather Nelson Rockefeller’s art collection; and the founding of the Museum of Modern Art.

Pierson is a passionate supporter of the arts and a longtime trustee of the Vermont Studio Center. She also serves on the board of the Friends of the Morrill Homestead, a historical home in Vermont. She lives with her family on a farm in Vermont and has spent summers on Mt Desert Island, Maine since she was a child.