Mary Ammirato-Collins

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Mary Ammirato-Collins
BornApril 3, 1908
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.

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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

Books

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

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References

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

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