Mary Callery
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| Mary Callery | |
| Born | 1903 New York City, USA |
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| Died | 1977 Paris, France |
| Occupation | Modern and Abstract Expressionist sculptor |
Mary Callery (1903 – 1977) was an American artist known for her Modern and Abstract Expressionist sculpture. She was part of the New York School art movement of the 1940s, '50s and '60s.
It is said she "wove linear figures of acrobats and dancers, as slim as spaghetti and as flexible as India rubber, into openwork bronze and steel forms. A friend of Picasso, she was one of those who brought the good word of French modernism to America at the start of World War II".[1]
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[edit] Biography
Mary Callery was born June 19, 1903 in New York City. She was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[2] She was the daughter of Julia and James Dawson Callery, president of the Diamond National Bank. From 1930 to 1940 she worked in France and had close friendship with Pablo Picasso.[3] She died in 1977 in the American Hospital, Paris, France.
[edit] Studies
Mary Callery studied at the Art Students League of New York (1921-1925) with Edward McCarten and privately in Paris with Jacques Loutchansky. She resided in Paris part of each year.[4][5]
[edit] Teaching positions
[edit] Solo exhibitions
- 1944, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1955: Buchholz Gallery, New York City
- 1946: Arts Club of Chicago
- 1947, 1949, 1950-1952, 1955: Curt Valentine Gallery, New York City
- 1949: Salon du Mai, Paris
- 1951: Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
- 1954: Gallerie des Cahiers d’Art
- 1957, 1961, 1965: M. Knoedler & Co., New York City
- 1962: M. Knoedler & Co., Paris
- 1968: C. Holland Gallery, New York
[edit] Group exhibitions
- 1939: Salon des Tuileries, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
- 1946: The City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri
- 1949: The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1956: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
- 1958: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; Brussels World’s Fair
[edit] Collections
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
- Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art - Andover, Massachusetts
- CIT Corporation
- The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
- The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
- Eastland Shopping Center, Detroit
- The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
- New York University, New York City
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
- Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
- The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
[edit] References
- ^ Charlotte Steifer Rubinstein, "American Women Sculptors, A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions" page: 329
- ^ Michel Seuphor,The Sculpture of this Century, Publisher: George Braziller, Inc., New York, 1960. page: 246
- ^ Mary Callery,Mary Callery Sculpture. Distributed by Wittenborn and Company, New York, 1961. Page: VI
- ^ Charlotte Steifer Rubinstein, "American Women Sculptors, A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions" page: 329
- ^ Paul Cummings,"Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists" 1 to 5th edition, St. Martin’s Press, New York; St. James Press, London
[edit] Bibliography
- John I. H. Baur, Revolution and Tradition in modern American Art, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1951
- Ulrich Gertz, Contemporary plastic art, Berlin, Rembrandt-Verlag, 1955
- Carola Giedion-Welcker, Contemporary sculpture, an evolution in volume and space, New York, G. Wittenborn , 1961, ©1960
- Fred Licht, Sculpture, 19th & 20th centuries, Greenwich, CT, New York Graphic Society, 1967
- E.H. Ramsden, Sculpture: theme and variations, towards a contemporary aesthetic, London, Lund, Humphries, 1953
- Herbert Read, A concise history of modern sculpture, New York, Praeger, 1964 ISBN 0195199413 9780195199413
- Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Sculpture of the twentieth century (exhibition catalogue), New York: Museum of Modern Art, ©1952
- Michel Seuphor, The sculpture of the century: dictionary of modern sculpture, Zwemmer, 1960
- Eduard Trier, Form and space; sculpture of the twentieth century, New York, Praeger, 1962
- Philip R. Adams, Mary Callery Sculpture. Distributed by Wittenborn and Company, New York, 1961
- Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
[edit] External links for image reproduction
- Mary Callery biography from askart.com (with image of Acrobats with Birds)
