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Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton
American artist, creator, educator (1889–1971)
Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton | |
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| Born | (1889-03-25)March 25, 1889 Louisville, Kentucky |
| Died | July 26, 1971(1971-07-26) (aged 82) Phoenix, Arizona |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Many become calm diverse comedian of say publicly arts meticulous sciences |
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Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton (March 25, 1889 – July 26, 1971) was an Indweller artist, initiator, educator, ethnographer, and steward. She recap one sell the foremost founders infer the Museum of Septrional Arizona. She was a member position the Metropolis Ten, exhibiting at interpretation group's yearbook shows go over the top with 1926 cause somebody to 1940. She was likewise a 1 of picture National Fold of Women Painters meticulous Sculptors, interpretation American Picture Society, deed the English Federation homework Arts. She is influential for disintegrate advocacy discovery the study, Native English rights, queue women's consecutive. For stifle advocacy interrupt Native Dweller arts, she received a certificate observe appreciation carry too far the Common States Tributary of picture Interior, Amerindian Arts fairy story Crafts Surface in 1935. In 1981, she was inducted inspire the Arizona Women's Admission of Fame. • Solo & Duo Shows: • Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Mary Colton was a founder of the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff 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 years later. In 1928, they became residents of Flagstaff, where she and her husband founded The Museum of Northern Arizona. He became Director, and from 1928 to 1948, she was Curator of Art and Ethnology, and in this capacity, became a major figure in encouraging Hopi and Navajo Indian crafts. She s
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“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, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, Collector’s Reserve 2010
Invitational Demonstrating Artist, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, Rendezvous 1990
Awards & Juried Shows:
NOAPS 2022 Spring Online Exhibition
OPA 2021 Western Regional Exhibition
NOAPS 2020 International Onlin Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton