Maud Hunt Squire was born in Cincinnati Ohio. She studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy and was a member of the Societe du Salon d; Autome, Paris. She exhibited at the Pennyslvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1902, and the Pan-Pacific Exposition in 1915.

Ethel Mars and Maud Hunt Squire were artists in their own right, but today our interest in them derives largely from the fact that they figured prominently in two of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," in which she referred to Squire and Mars respectively as "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene." The two lovers lived together for 20 years.

Stein was clearly on to the intimate nature of the relationship between the two "misses," and her portraits are filled with sly references and double entendres of the kind that one would expect in a still-Victorian society. Maud Hunt Squire died in Vence, France.