VVFA Modern | Artists | Mary Abbott (b. 1921)

Mary Abbott (b. 1921) Fairfield Pink, 1950 Oil on canvas 64 x 84 x inches Signed lower right, signed, dated and titled verso	Mary Abbott (b. 1921) Light Weed Oil on canvas 35 15/16 x 24 x inches Signed "Abbott" lower right	Mary Abbott (b. 1921) Heurte Bise Oil on canvas 28 1/8 x 30 1/8 x inches Signed in pencil "M Abbott" lower right
Mary Abbott (b. 1921) Untitled Oil on canvas 5 1/8 x 7 3/16 x inches Signed lower right "MA"	Mary Abbott (b. 1921) Untitled (Self-Portrait) Oil on linen canvas 67 5/16 x 49 9/16 x inches Signed lower left	Mary Abbott (b. 1921) Forest of Dark, ca. 1990s Oil on canvas 84 x 50 x inches Signed lower left
Mary Abbott (b. 1921) Lucy Oil on canvas 71 x 75 x inches Initialed lower left	Mary Abbott (b. 1921) Yellow Diamond I Oil on canvas 41 1/4 x 53 1/2 x inches Signed lower right and verso	Mary Abbott (b. 1921) Untitled, 1951 Oil and oil stick on paper mounted to canvas 20 1/2 x 26 x inches Signed and dated at lower right
Mary Abbott (b. 1921) Corrigan Oil on canvas 72 1/8 x 60 1/8 x inches Signed at lower right	Mary Abbott (b. 1921) White Lillies Oil on canvas 67 x 50 x inches Signed at lower right	Mary Abbott (b. 1921) Bill's Painting, 1951 Oil on linen canvas 72 x 48 x inches Signed and titled verso SOLD
Mary Abbott (b. 1921) Red Papers, c. 1950 Oil on paper mounted to canvas 41 7/8 x 57 1/8 x inches Signed at lower right SOLD	Mary Abbott (b. 1921) Untitled (Diptych), 1951 Oil and oil stick on paper mounted to canvas 20 1/4 x 56 x inches Both panels signed at lower right and signed SOLD

(Mary Abbott, b. 1921) Born in New York City, Abbott’s early interest in art led her to courses at the Art Students League in the late 1930’s, where she worked with painters such as George Grosz. In 1946 she met sculptor David Hare, who introduced her to an experimental school called The Subjects of the Artist- a sort of anti-art school started in 1948 by Hare, William Baziotes, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Robert Motherwell. Through her associations with the school, Abbott moved into the heart of the avant-garde painting movement and exhibited at three of the Stable Gallery Annuals. The Stable Gallery, run by wealthy socialite Eleanor Ward and her assistant, Abstract Expressionist artist Nicholas Carone, remedied the lack of exhibition opportunity for non- established Abstract Expressionist artists mounting annual exhibitions for five years. Abbott was one of the few women admitted to the Artist Club along with Elaine De Kooning and Perle Fine. In the mid-1970’s Abbott taught at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, eventually returning to New York. Today she divides her time between her Southampton home and the Manhattan loft she has maintained for more than three decades.