$5,036
Mary Ogden Abbott (1894-1981) Wall Sculpture Relief-carved stained and burnished giltwood panel Concord, Massachusetts Shaped low-relief carved wood panel depicting a stalking mountain lion amidst rockery and cactus, ht. 41 1/2, wd. 33 in. Provenance: Family descent. Note: Mary Ogden Abbott was a widely traveled artist, hunter, and equestrian. She was born and lived most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, graduating in 1917. She spent eight years in her twenties traveling with her mother across the country, backpacking in the Grand Canyon and Montana, and traveled abroad to the Far and Near East and then through Europe. She was a landscape painter painting views of the American West, the western Himalayas and Mexico. She also carved wooden doors, including a pair of teak doors which were hung at the entrance of the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. Her drawings were illustrated in the journal Appalachia and in travel books. Her works have been exhibited at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, the Currier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire, Concord Art Association, Concord, Massachusetts, and the Fitchburg Art Center, Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-12-18