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Title

Portrait study (Henry Gibbons)

1949?

Artist

Mary Abbott

Australia

08 Nov 1916 – 02 Feb 1996

  • Details

    Date
    1949?
    Media category
    Drawing
    Materials used
    pencil on paper
    Dimensions
    32.8 x 28.7 cm sheet
    Signature & date

    Signed and dated lower c., pencil "Mary M. Abbott/ 1949?".

    Credit
    Gift of Chris Roberts 2014
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    58.2014
    Copyright
    © Estate of Mary Abbott

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    Artist information
    Mary Abbott

    Works in the collection

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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. Henry Gibbons (1884-1972) taught at the Julian Ashton School for forty years from 1923, becoming Head of the School in 1942 on the death of Ashton.

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