Mary Abbott Art
Mary Abbott, who passed away in 2019, was one of the last living artists present for the birth of — and who participated in — the Abstract Expressionist movement in New York City in the late 1940s.
A descendant of John and John Quincy Adams, Abbott's father, Naval Commander Henry Abbott, served in Roosevelt’s war cabinet. Her mother, Elizabeth Grinnell, was a poet and syndicated columnist and her aunt, Mary Ogden Abbott, was a well-known sculptor and big game hunter. Abbot’s childhood was spent between New York; Boston; Washington, D.C.; Concord, MA; and Southampton, NY.
As a child Abbott aspired to be a herpetologist and an artist. She took classes in D.C. with Eugene Weiss at the Corcoran School and later in New York at the Art Students League, studying with George Gross and Morris Kantor. Introduced to André Breton and the expat Surrealist group in New York by David Hare, Abbot joined the Subjects of the Artist, an unorthodox school run by Hare, William Baziotes, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. In the late 1940s Abbott worked with Rothko and Newman and fostered a lifelong close relationship with Willem de Kooning.
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Mary Abbott Art
Canvas, Oil, Laid Paper
1950s Abstract Mary Abbott Art
Paper, Pastel
1970s Mary Abbott Art
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
1950s Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Art
Paper
1980s Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Art
Oil Pastel
1910s Jugendstil Mary Abbott Art
Paper, Crayon
2010s Abstract Geometric Mary Abbott Art
Oil Pastel, Ink, Sumi Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mary Abbott Art
Oil
20th Century Expressionist Mary Abbott Art
Paper, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Geometric Mary Abbott Art
Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache
2010s Abstract Geometric Mary Abbott Art
Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache
2010s Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Art
Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Mary Abbott Art
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
20th Century Abstract Impressionist Mary Abbott Art
Paper, Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mary Abbott Art
Paper, Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mary Abbott Art
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Mary Abbott Art
Gesso, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
1960s Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Art
Oil, Canvas
1970s Post-Modern Mary Abbott Art
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Art
Canvas, Oil