Maude Drein Bryant was born in Wilmington, Delaware, May 11, 1880. She studied under Thomas Anschutz, Hugh H. Breckenridge, William M. Chase; at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and the Academie Colarossi in Paris. She married fellow artist Everett Lloyd Bryant on June, 2, 1904. The Bryant's purchased "Brookside Studios" on the Perkiomen Creek in Hendricks, PA shortly after their marriage.

Maude Bryant was awarded the A. Worthington Ball Prize, Baltimore, 1914; the Lambert Fund Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1914; and the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She was a member of the Charcoal Club, 1914.; the Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, 1916; and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

She exhibited at the Peabody Gallery c.1911-1912; with the Six Baltimore Women Painters; the Philadelphia Ten; at the Art Institute of Chicago 1911 she exhibited "Druid Lake.”; at The Charcoal Club, Third Exhibition of contemporary American paintings at the Peabody Institute, 1912; at the Pennsylvania Academy 1912; at the Gimbel Bros. Art Gallery, Philadelphia; in 1914 she had a one "man" Exhibited at the Folson Galleries, No. 396 Fifth Ave. "The Antique Teapot" won the "Alice Worthington Ball" prize in Baltimore, MD awarded by Redfield, Bellows, and Henri. In March - April 1914 Maude & E.L exhibit 22 paintings at the Sketch Club, Philadelphia. 14 by E.L. and 8 by Maude.; at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1914; in 1914 Pennsylvania Academy purchases "Calendulas and Asters" for their permanent collection with the Lambert Fund. (Prize) It hangs next to one of her husbands works; in 1914 she exhibited at the MacDowell Club Gallery in NY, with ten other the Baltimore Women; in 1916 she exhibited at the 11th Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, City Art Museum, Saint Louis; in 1916 she exhibited at the Delgado Museum of Art, now the New Orleans Museum of Art. ; on Oct. 23, 1917 she was asked to be a teacher & director of an Art League, Illinois. (The professor had been "taken off by the draft."); at the National Academy of Design, 1923; at the Fine Arts of the Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Philadelphia, 1926 she exhibited, "Vermillion, Rose and Blue" and "Perennials"; at the Corcoran Gallery of Art 10th Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, 1926. This exhibit information is not complete, but it is impressive to say the least.

Newspaper commentary from her day:
"Maude Drein Bryant is happily represented in all of her eight paintings. They exploit here resourcefulness as a colorist, and while still-life subjects are in the majority, her group has more variety than usual, thanks to the presence of a landscape called "Plum Blossoms" and an interior with a figure called "The Dressing Table."
“Mrs. Bryant paints landscape beautifully, getting the spirit of the outdoors into her canvases, filling them with sunshine and stimulating color - "Plum Trees" is an excellent example - and I believe she would profit greatly in the long run if she would do more of them. In whatever she does, the decorative element is uppermost. She has rare feeling for tone and arrangement and her style indicates very clearly that she know exactly what she is about. The best of her present offerings are "April Bouquet," "Blue and Gold" and "Vermillion, Rose and Blue." -From a Baltimore, MD newspaper.
"The exhibition is rarely simulating and fine. Mrs. Bryant, especially, surprises by the great strength and character of her work. This is the more remarkable, as she has seen very little if anything, of the new movement. Yet her work is essentially and powerfully modern. She has something of the feeling of Van Gogh about her, yet she has never seen a canvas by this master.
“The exhibition includes the canvas which took the Alice Ball prize in Baltimore awarded by Henri, Redfield and Bellows. It is a remarkable canvas, and Mrs. Bryant should have a great future." - Philadelphia Inquirer.
"The impressionistic still lifes of Maude Drein Bryant in the Folsom Galleries are excellent in color and handsome as decoration. It is one of the most attractive shows that these galleries have held this winter. Miss Bryant does not permit herself to use much fineness of detail and in one or two of her canvases she has disdained literalism so heartily that one is hard put to it to identify the flowers named in the title with the presentment of them in paint. For the most part the subjects are well chosen for the treatment allotted to them, and the Chinese bowls, lustre teapots and other accessories are handsome enough to be worthy of the flowers they are associated with." - Dec. 27, 1914, New York City.”