Mary Callery
Sculpture, Visual Artist
1903 – 1977
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Who was Mary Callery?
Mary Callery was an American artist known for her Modern and Abstract Expressionist sculpture. She was part of the New York School art movement of the 1940s, '50s and '60s.
It is said she "wove linear figures of acrobats and dancers, as slim as spaghetti and as flexible as India rubber, into openwork bronze and steel forms. A friend of Picasso, she was one of those who brought the good word of French modernism to America at the start of World War II".
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- Born
- Jun 19, 1903
New York City - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Art Students League of New York
- Employment
- Black Mountain College
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- Feb 12, 1977
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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