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'''Mary Collins Ammirato''' (born April 3, 1908, date of death unknown) was an artist and poet born in Hortense, Texas. She was a student at the [[Académie Julian]] in Paris.<ref>[http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00004138?rskey=v6XacJ&result=1 Benezit Dictionnary of Artists]</ref> She exhibited at the [[Société des Artistes Indépendants|Salon des Indépendants]] in 1937. Mary also had a showing of her enamels on copper during a visit to the USA in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mary lived with husband Claudio also an artist and composer in the Canary Islands, both who were long time friends of heiress Eleanor Post. Mary was a travel companion of Eleanor's and also a Ziegfeld Follies girl in New York City where she met Claudio. Mary has three surviving great nieces in America.
| name = Mary Ammirato-Collins
| other_names = Mary Collins Ammirato
| birth_date = April 3, 1908
| birth_place = [[Houston, Texas]], US
| death_date = Unknown
| nationality = American
| occupation = artist, poet
}}


'''Mary Ammirato-Collins''' (or Mary Collins Ammirato, born April 3, 1908, date of death unknown) was an American artist from Houston, Texas.
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She wrote the [[libretto]] for her husband's opera, ''Paradise Lost (A comedy for Modern Times)''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Senior|first=Evan|title=Music and Musicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tvYJAQAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Hansom Books|location=London|oclc=1758885}}</ref>

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Ammirato-Collins was a student at the [[Académie Julian]] in Paris.<ref>[http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00004138?rskey=v6XacJ&result=1 Benezit Dictionnary of Artists]</ref> She exhibited at the [[Société des Artistes Indépendants|Salon des Indépendants]] in 1937. Mary also had a showing of her enamels on copper during a visit to the US in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mary lived in the [[Canary Islands]] with husband Claudio Ammirato, who was an artist and composer, and a physicist. Both who were long time friends of heiress [[Eleanor Post Hutton]]. Mary was a travel companion of Eleanor's and also a [[Ziegfeld Follies]] girl in New York City where she met Claudio.

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Ammirato-Collins wrote the [[libretto]] for her husband's opera, ''Paradise Lost (A comedy for Modern Times)''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Senior|first=Evan|title=Music and Musicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tvYJAQAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Hansom Books|location=London|oclc=1758885}}</ref>

==Selected exhibitions==
*1973 – Woodstock Gallery, London, United Kingdom (first one-woman exhibition)
*1974 – Art Alliance, Philadelphia, United States (first American exhibition)
*1976 – {{ill|Casino de Tenerife|es}}, Spain
*1976 – Provincial Palace, Zaragoza, Spain


== Books ==
== Books ==
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=== General references ===
=== General references ===


*{{cite book|last=Weisberg|first=Gabriel P.|last2=Becker|first2=Jane R.|title=Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RaLvk8WvXu0C|year=1999|publisher=Rutgers University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8135-2756-7}}
*{{cite book|last1=Weisberg|first1=Gabriel P.|last2=Becker|first2=Jane R.|title=Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RaLvk8WvXu0C|year=1999|publisher=Rutgers University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8135-2756-7}}
*{{cite book|last=Hamilton|first=Gerald|title=Expone Mary Collins Ammirato|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8kb0SAAACAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Istituto Italiano di Cultura|location=Madrid|oclc=501154660}}
*{{cite book|last=Hamilton|first=Gerald|title=Expone Mary Collins Ammirato|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8kb0SAAACAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Istituto Italiano di Cultura|location=Madrid|oclc=501154660}}
*{{cite book|last=Woodstock Gallery|first=|title=Enamels|chapter=Catalogue of exhibit 24 April to 12 May 1973|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-G0CSQAACAAJ|year=1973|location=London|oclc=501154659}}
*{{cite book|last=Woodstock Gallery|title=Enamels|chapter=Catalogue of exhibit 24 April to 12 May 1973|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-G0CSQAACAAJ|year=1973|location=London|oclc=501154659}}



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Latest revision as of 17:44, 1 December 2023

Mary Ammirato-Collins
BornApril 3, 1908
Houston, Texas, US
DiedUnknown
NationalityAmerican
Other namesMary Collins Ammirato
Occupation(s)artist, poet

Mary Ammirato-Collins (or Mary Collins Ammirato, born April 3, 1908, date of death unknown) was an American artist from Houston, Texas.

Ammirato-Collins was a student at the Académie Julian in Paris.[1] She exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1937. Mary also had a showing of her enamels on copper during a visit to the US in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mary lived in the Canary Islands with husband Claudio Ammirato, who was an artist and composer, and a physicist. Both who were long time friends of heiress Eleanor Post Hutton. Mary was a travel companion of Eleanor's and also a Ziegfeld Follies girl in New York City where she met Claudio.

Ammirato-Collins wrote the libretto for her husband's opera, Paradise Lost (A comedy for Modern Times).[2]

Selected exhibitions

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  • 1973 – Woodstock Gallery, London, United Kingdom (first one-woman exhibition)
  • 1974 – Art Alliance, Philadelphia, United States (first American exhibition)
  • 1976 – Casino de Tenerife [es], Spain
  • 1976 – Provincial Palace, Zaragoza, Spain

Books

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Ammirato was the author of several books of poems, some of which were illustrated by her husband Claudio Ammirato:

  • The Beach at Sierra Helada (1935)
  • Tapestry of Sleep (1936)
  • Dustless Beauty (1937)
  • Palm Tree Daughters (1938)
  • Red Apples of Fall (1947)
  • Spring in Olympus (1939).

References

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  1. ^ Benezit Dictionnary of Artists
  2. ^ Senior, Evan (1970). Music and Musicians. London: Hansom Books. OCLC 1758885.

General references

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