Mary Abbott Roberts, who also exhibited under her maiden name of Mary Abbott, was born in Quirindi in rural New South Wales and studied in Sydney at the Sydney Commercial Arts School and the Julian Ashton Art School. She was best known as an academic portrait painter and regularly exhibited in the Archibald Prize throughout the 1950s.
Mary was a finalist in Archibald Prize in 1954 to 1958
Portia Geach Award through the 1970s - was also repented in ‘Before Their Time’ in 1995 and On Line Exhibition’ - Figure Drawings by the Teachers of the Julian Ashton Art School’ – in 1992
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Change to Open Section - She also won 0 Open Section -- watercolour and other media prize 1972 with Bathurst Regional Gallery -
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