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Details
- Date
- 1938
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil on pale grey paper
- Dimensions
- 31.8 x 23.3 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil "Mary M.Abbott/ 1938".
- Credit
- Gift of Chris Roberts 2014
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 49.2014
- Copyright
- © Estate of Mary Abbott
- Artist information
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Mary Abbott
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About
Mary Abbott was born in Quirindi, NSW in 1906 and studied at a number of art schools in Sydney and London, most significantly at the Julian Ashton School from 1938-43. Between 1954 and 1958 she had paintings hung in the Archibald Prize five times, all portraits of women, reflecting her work as a portraitist, with which, along with teaching, she supported herself for much of her career. Her work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in 1985. The subject of this portrait is the artist's sister Florence.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Mary Abbott Roberts 1935-1985, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 21 Jun 1985–21 Jul 1985
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Mary Abbott and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Mary Abbott Roberts 1935-1985, Bathurst, 1985, 4 (illus.), 5. cat.no. 5
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