Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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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1960s Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1970s Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
1960s Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Oil, Watercolor
1960s Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Oil
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Pointillist Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
1990s Realist Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ballpoint Pen, Archival Paper, Graphite, Oil Pastel
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Gouache
Jacques Coulais (1955-2011)French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
2010s Abstract Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Oil Pastel, Pastel, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
1950s American Modern Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper, Ballpoint Pen, Color Pencil, Graphite
2010s Abstract Mary Abbott Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Oil Pastel, Pastel, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
