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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Name
Mary Margaret Abbott Roberts
Also known as:
  • Mary Abbott
  • Mary M Roberts
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
  • Designer (Jewellery Designer)
Other Occupation
  • 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
Tags:
women's art
portraiture
illustration
fashion
Archibald Prize
Australian Women's Land Army
Birth date
c.8 November 1916
Birth place
Quirindi, NSW, Australia
Death date
c.2 February 1996
Active Period
  • 1934 - 1996
Residence
  • 1916 - c.1932 Quirindi, NSW
  • 1932 - 1936 Sydney, NSW
  • 1936 - 1938 London, England, UK (Also travelled to Amsterdam and Paris)
  • 1938 - 1959 Sydney, NSW
  • 1959 - c.1996 Bathurst, NSW
Training
  • Commercial art, 1932 - 1935 Sydney Commercial Art School, Sydney, NSW
  • Art, 1936 - c.1936 Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney, NSW
  • Commercial art, life drawing, watercolour, 1937 - 1938 Chiswick Polytechnical College, London,, UK
  • Art (mainly part-time), 1938 - 1943 Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney, NSW

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