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| A longtime resident of Concord, Massachusetts, Mary Abbott lived a long life as a broadly traveled landscape painter including views of the American West, the western Himalayas and Mexico. She also carved wooden doors, which are at the entrance of the Department of the Interior in Washington D.C. and was an illustrator of articles and books including "Wild Animals of Five Rivers Country" by George Cory Franklin.
She was a direct descendant of John Quincy Adams and was educated at the School of Fine Arts in Boston, graduating in 1917. From 1920 to 1927, she traveled around the world which included travels in Asia, a horse back trip through the Grand Canyon, hunting wild animals in Mexico, and exploring the Tsegi Canyons in northeastern Arizona. One of her Grand Canyon paintings is in the Grand Canyon National Park collection.
When she died in 1981, she was president of the Adams Memorial Society in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Source:
"Women Artists of the American West" by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick |
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