Mary Kollock Explained

Mary Kollock (–) was an American landscape painter.

Mary Kollock was born on in Norfolk, Virginia, the daughter of Rev. Shepard Kosciuszko Kollock and Sarah Harris Kollock.^[1]

She studied art at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts under Robert Wylie, then moved to New York City and studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students' League and under John B. Bristol and A. H. Wyant. She went to Paris and studied at the Académie Julian, then opened a studio there and studied under Paul-Louis Delance, Callot, and Lewis Deschamps.^[2] From 1895 to 1897, she was head of the art department at St. Helen's Hall, a school in Portland, Oregon.^[3] She exhibited her work regularly, including at the Centennial Exposition.^[4]

Mary Kollock died on 12 January 1911 in New York City.

Notes and References

Web site: Boston Evening Transcript 13 Jan 1911, page 13 . 2023-12-17 . Newspapers.com . en.
Book: Johnson, Rossiter . Biographical dictionary of America .. . 1906 . Boston, American Biographical Society . Robarts - University of Toronto.
Book: Allen, Ginny . Oregon painters : the first hundred years (1859-1959) : index and biographical dictionary . 1999 . Portland : Oregon Historical Society Press . Internet Archive . 978-0-87595-271-0.
Book: Chadwick, Whitney . Women, art, and society . 1997 . New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson . Internet Archive . 978-0-500-20293-7.