Mary russell artist biography

  • Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton (March 25, 1889 – July 26, 1971) was an.
  • Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton was an American artist, author, educator, ethnographer, and curator.
  • Mary Russell lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma where she paints representational art that encompasses multiple genres including figure work, landscape, and still life.

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    Mary Russell

    Solo & Duo Shows:
    “A World at Play,” Capitol Exhibition, Governor’s Gallery, Oklahoma Arts Council, OKC, 2015
    One-Man Show, E. S. Lawrence Gallery, Aspen, CO, 2005
    Two-Man Show, M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, 2001
    Two-Man Show, M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, 1995
     
     
    Selected Exhibition History, Auctions, & Demonstrations:
    “Small Works Great Wonders,” National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, OKC, OK, 2011-2012
     Collectors’ Reserve, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, 2010 – 2012
     American Art Classic, Morris & Whiteside Gallery Auction, Charleston & Hilton Head, 1995 – 2016
     Renaissance Sale, Altermann & Morris Galleries Auction, Santa Fe & Houston, 1995- 2004
     American Art in Miniature, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, 1990 – 2009
     Invitational Demonstrating Artist, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK, Magnificent Vision 2011
     Guest Lecturer, Gil

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    Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton

    American artist, author, educator (1889–1971)

    Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton

    Born(1889-03-25)March 25, 1889

    Louisville, Kentucky

    DiedJuly 26, 1971(1971-07-26) (aged 82)

    Phoenix, Arizona

    NationalityAmerican
    Known forMany and diverse fields of the arts and sciences
    Notable work
    • Church at Ranchos de Taos
    • Edmund Nequatewa
    • Walpi
    • Navajo Shepardess
    • Sunset and Moonglow
    • Lonesome Hole
    • Sedona From Red Ledge

    Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton (March 25, 1889 – July 26, 1971) was an American artist, author, educator, ethnographer, and curator. She is one of the principal founders of the Museum of Northern Arizona. She was a member of the Philadelphia Ten, exhibiting at the group's annual shows from 1926 to 1940. She was also a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the American Watercolor Society, and the American Federation of Arts. She is known for her advoc

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    Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton

    Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Mary Colton was a founder of the Museum of Northern Arizona in flaggstång as well as a noted landscapist, Indian portraitist, sculptor, museum curator, and writer. Of particular delight to her was painting the Hopi and Navajo Indians on site, directly from life.

    Spending her childhood in Philadelphia, she studied portraiture at Moore Institute and at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (the youngest in her class), 1904-09, with Henry Snell and Elliott Daingerfield. Though her education was in the study of people, she had an obvious talent for landscape painting. In her studio in Philadelphia, she worked as a commercial artist and painting restorer. She became associated with a group of ten Philadelphia women artists (The Philadelphia Ten) with whom she continued to exhibit intermittently over the next thirty years.

    In 1912, she married a zoology instructor, Dr. Harold S Colton, and moved with him to Arizona twelve y