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