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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1970s Mary Abbott Art
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
1950s Abstract Mary Abbott Art
Paper, Pastel
1950s Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Art
Paper
1980s Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Art
Oil Pastel
1960s Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Art
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Mary Abbott Art
Watercolor, Paint, Paper
1910s Jugendstil Mary Abbott Art
Paper, Crayon
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Mary Abbott Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Mary Abbott Art
Canvas, Paint, Oil Pastel, Cotton Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mary Abbott Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Mary Abbott Art
Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel,...
2010s Abstract Geometric Mary Abbott Art
Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache
1980s Photorealist Mary Abbott Art
Handmade Paper, Oil Pastel
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
Gesso, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Geometric Mary Abbott Art
Oil Pastel, Ink, Sumi Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
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