Mary Margaret Abbott Roberts b. c.8 November 1916

Also known as Mary Abbott , Mary M Roberts
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Designer (Jewellery Designer)
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.
Tags: women's art, portraiture, illustration, fashion, Archibald Prize, Australian Women's Land Army
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associate of
Jude Adams
Artist, Curator
associate of
Jennifer Barber
Artist, Curator
student of
Julian Ashton
Artist
student of
Henry Gibbons
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist
commissioned by
Shirley Batty
Curator
associate of
Eric Wilson
Artist (Painter)
student of
Maude Russell
Artist (Painter)
spouse of
Grantley Darcy Roberts
Other occupation
parent of
Christine Margaret Roberts
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associate of
Wendy Walker
1946
Other occupation
Painted her portrait for 1954 Archibald Prize

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Other occupations
  • pupil teacher (ANZSIC code: 81) 1935 Sydney Commercial Art School, Sydney, NSW
  • Member of (ANZSIC code: 01) 1941 - c.1943 Australian Women's Land Army
  • Assistant teacher (ANZSIC code: 81) 1943 - 1947 Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney, NSW
  • Art Teacher (ANZSIC code: 81) 1960 - 1963 Bathurst Technical College, Bathurst, NSW
  • pupil teacher (ANZSIC code: 81) 1935 Sydney Commercial Art School, Sydney, NSW
  • Member of (ANZSIC code: 01) 1941 - c.1943 Australian Women's Land Army
  • Assistant teacher (ANZSIC code: 81) 1943 - 1947 Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney, NSW