Title
(Two life studies: head of man in hat & seated woman with hands clasped)
circa 1940
Artist
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Details
- Date
- circa 1940
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil on paper
- Dimensions
- 36.7 x 45.0 cm sheet
- Credit
- Gift of Chris Roberts 2014
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 52.2014
- 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.